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

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!

Green Lacewing 1000 Eggs - Good Bugs - Aphid ExterminatorIf 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 worked amazing and I will be getting them earlier than I did last year. Aphids? What aphids.. they cleaned them up in no time.

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.

I got 3 lacewings from this, and that’s it. Waste of money and time.

For those that had disappointing results:This year I figured out the perfect bug related solution to aphid infestations. I released ~1k ladybugs early to make a big dent in the aphids, and then ordered lacewings two weeks later. This meant that by the time the lacewings were hatched, they had a smallish/manageable population to eat. The best part? They stick around WAY better than ladybugs. I ordered my lacewings once (late April) and if I go outside I can see floating lacewing eggs in my balcony garden still in the second half of July. This time around they’re trying to eat my spider mites (good luck with that, lacewings).So if lacewings don’t solve your problem 100%, you might need a one-two punch of a strategy. Just make sure to release the ladybugs first since they’ll also eat lacewings babies if they come across them while hunting aphids.