Lace Bug

Found on the undersides of leaves of various trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants.

Herbivorous; they use their piercing-sucking mouthparts to feed on plant sap from the foliage of their host plants.

They are typically slow-moving and spend most of their life cycle on host plants. Females insert eggs into leaf tissue, and the nymphs undergo several molts before maturing into adults with distinctive lace-like wing covers.

While they can cause aesthetic damage and stippling to landscape plants, they are generally not harmful to humans. Some species are considered pests in ornamental gardens, while others are specialized to specific native plants and have a neutral impact on the ecosystem.