The best part of spending as much time as I do working in my yard is that I end up being very
close to nature and thus I see a lot of things we normally would never notice . Yesterday, as
I was arranging boulders on a bank, something backlit by the rising sun caught my eye.

How COOL!

The eggs are on silk threads attached to a Christmas Cholla spine.

I knew they were insect eggs but didn’t know which insect. What a wonderful surprise to find
out that they were the eggs of a very beneficial insect called a Lacewing. They are so beneficial
that, like Lady Bugs, they are sold as natural pest control.

Click here for info on the Lacewing.

Shot with a Canon SX10. Having the tilting viewing screen allowed me to get close.