Green Lacewing 1000 Eggs - Good Bugs - Aphid Exterminator by The Future

My pepper container garden of 10-20 plants was getting completely destroyed by aphids this spring after I brought them outside. I was manually removing aphids once or twice each day and I still couldn't get them to go away. Within a week or two of distributing the lacewing larvae, my aphid problem went away and didn't come back for the rest of the year. I will probably go ahead and order them preemptively next year and in the future. My only complaint is that it only came with 5 little cardboard boxes for distributing the larvae, which is enough for exactly 5 plants. I'm also slightly skeptical of there being 1000 eggs, but whatever amount I received was more than enough to get the job done.

Green Lacewing 1000 Eggs - Good Bugs - Aphid Exterminator If I would have wanted to order dead eggs I would have looked for them in a Condor preserve.or gotten them on an easter egg hunt. Both shipments (one was a replacement shipment) resulted in not one of the supposedly two thousand eggs to hatch. It has been four weeks since the first shipment and, besides my kid's tears htting the empty rice hulls in the dead egg containers, there is still no life movement! Knowing that this would be just a bunch of huie, I setup water protected control groups/cups in different temperature areas inside the house and in the garden to monitor the process. Folks, this is more of a "hocus pocus" action to skim money off of people that try to be trendy or those that feel the need to avoid using pesticides. I do appreciate Natures Good Guy's attempt to send me ladybugs instead of lacewings - but there is just no comparison. There is a very good reason for why I had asked for lacewing and not ladybugs! After releasing them exactly as requested notes that came with the package and after reading about it in multiple forums) all but a very few of the 5000 had disappeared by late morning (the next day). People - do not buy ladybugs unless you just like to watch them fly off when the sun comes out! They will clean out the bugs in your neighbor's yard on your dime! Be smart and find the lacewings at a reputable place that guarantees them to be alive! At least you will get your money back if they are dead and you get to right a juicy review about your experience and kick the manufacturer's but for wasting your time and plants. At this point the aphids have completely decimated my cabbage and tomatoes and are working on destroying the few living asian beans plants that are left. Oh, and the spider mites are having a mega party on my house plants! I am quite disappointed in the results, especially after paying that kind of money including shipping for nothing. Worse, however, is the fact that an entire season's worth of my organic vegetable crop has been decimated by the very same bugs that this " snake oil miracle cure" had promised to eradicate. Natures Good Guys were not so good after all - the only thing they are good at is wasting my time and ruining my plants! Please see attached photos of the damage in my garden so you see this is not just a competitor bagging on them "Good Guys." I could have shot a photo of all the separate cups filled with empty rice hulls as well but there really is not much to look at! https://www.amazon.com/Green-Lacewing-1000-Eggs-Exterminator/dp/B00J1PHHC4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1468718329&sr=8-3&keywords=natures+good+guys+lacewing+eggs

These little guys arrived alive and ready to go. Within 30minutes of emptying the shells into the boxes they were crawling out, I had to rush to get them out into the garden before they infested my house lol. The larvae are very very small but very healthy. Excited to see some adults flying around in a few weeks!

My "eggs" arrived today. I was concerned that they took a full week to ship, and they arrived with the larvae already hatched; the extremely cannibalistic larvae with no other available food source. Unsurprisingly, only a few survived. I put them on my plants; since my current aphid infestation is small, those few larvae should be able to manage it for now. I am worried that there won't be enough of them survivng into adulthood to establish a colony to continue to manage insectoid pests. I have lacewing homes set up and wheast available for the adults in a few weeks; my only concern is whether three or four is enough to survive predator casualties as pupae and emerge to reproduce. I will update as the life cycle progresses. If they successfully reproduce, I'll give it another star; if they all die out, I'd give it one star less.

Inspected hulls under microscope upon receipt- saw no eggs but followed the instructions anyway. Not a single larva has materialized. I understand bugs don't always cooperate, but this has cost me a significant amount of investment in lost plant seed stock Waste of time and money.

At first, I was very upset, because only two larvae appeared to hatch. Now, what I think happened is that they hatched during shipping, ate all the moth eggs included in the packet for them, then ate each other. That's why the two survivors upon arrival were the only two. Having said that, the two that did make it have helped knock the thrips back a little, but there's only so much two little bugs can do. Now, they look about ready to pupate, so I'm hopeful they'll survive that and make more adult lacewings, for which there are plenty of pollen-y flowers + wheast sprayed around to feed them. The trick to seeing how many larvae you have is to turn a light on during the night. Then, you'll see some scary little things patrolling the leaves, but I've never seen them out during the day. Since the mothers lay their eggs at night, I guess it shouldn't be surprising that the larvae patrol at night too. So, I'm re-ordering more today, in hopes of cooler weather so more will arrive this time. My thrips seem immune to neem and have been killing everything, and I think this product would be PERFECT during cooler months. In the summer, however, try to find them locally if you can, so they don't all hatch and eat each other during transit. The only other thing that has helped (against thrips) is SNS 209, which you put in the water, and then the plants taste bad to the thrips. I would suggest using these lacewing eggs + one other method, such as the 209, predatory mites, or nematodes. (Or all of the above!) Thrips are no joke; thank goodness for the good bugs. Cooler weather: 5/5 stars Above 85°F weather: 4/5 stars (for NOT enough moth eggs to sustain them when they hatch during transit.)

After reading the reviews, I ordered 3 packs just in case any of them were duds. We received 2 out of 3 packs of larvae, which were teeming with life, but the 3rd sealed pack was missing the larvae pouch, only contained the release boxes & the instructions. I contacted the company immediately & it was refunded within 2 days for the missing larvae, without being charged to ship the empty pack back (once I uploaded an image), so their customer service was excellent. The other larvae are in great shape & there were many alive & quite active. They went to work immediately on the rose garden.

I received these in a timely manner, put them out in my greenhouse right away, and now more than seven weeks later, there is not one sign of a lacewing. Since the life cycle should easily have run its course, I should have plenty of lacewings, but I have none!! The seller said not to look for the larvae (too small to see) but to watch the aphid infestation. I have watched the aphids thrive and ordered ladybugs. Since the seller will not send me new ones or refund my money, you better save your money and just get ladybugs!!