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Iris Cohen wrote (responding to James):

The thing that most concerns me is i noticed that one of his leaves has a
cluster of fine hair-like structures ending in white oval blobs on its (sic)
underside.

Those are the eggs of a lacewing. Those are the good guys.


Iris - I second your motion!
And James, in case you're not sure, and for anyone else who's curious,
here's a website with nice pictures of lacewings and ladybugs, in both
their familiar adult and (rather peculiar) larval and egg stages:

http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/comhort/no...eneficials.htm


Anita
Northern Harford County, Maryland, USDA zone 6
"I like winter trees against the sky, I said.
What does that say about you, she said, that you like
undressed trees. A voyeur."
-from a poem by Kay Cheever

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