The Well Dressed Lace Bug
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Hawthorn Twig
If we pay a visit to that hawthorn bush we shall probably find a bug to our liking. Yes, here is one.
It is a tiny thing, I know, but wait until you see it under the microscope.
Ah, I thought you would be pleased!
Nell says it looks as though it had on a lace party dress.
Is it not a dainty fairy!
We call it the lace bug.
It does not suck the juices of other insects, but instead it sucks the juices of plants.
Its eggs are very curious. It lays them on leaves and glues them fast. They look like little out-growths of the leaf.
The young lace bugs are like their parents in form, only, of course, they have no wings and so they are not pretty.
Fairy lace bug, we are glad to make your acquaintance.