Lacewings, or Green Lacewings

[Hutbug]

Does anybody know if lacewings are ok for chameleons to eat? Because I have a whitefly problem with my hibiscus, and I really don't want to pull the huge plant out of the cage to treat with insecticidal soap, etc.
Lacewings are a sort of moth-looking insect, and in the larvae stage they eat whiteflys. So I thought it would be great if I could buy them off the internet, put about 50 in the cage and let them go to work. Can't use ladybugs because I've read they are toxic to chams. What do all y'all think?

 

[Heika]

Does anybody know if lacewings are ok for chameleons to eat? Because I have a whitefly problem with my hibiscus, and I really don't want to pull the huge plant out of the cage to treat with insecticidal soap, etc.
Lacewings are a sort of moth-looking insect, and in the larvae stage they eat whiteflys. So I thought it would be great if I could buy them off the internet, put about 50 in the cage and let them go to work. Can't use ladybugs because I've read they are toxic to chams. What do all y'all think?

Lacewings are non-toxic. I have considered buying some for my chameleons more than once, but never have. Please let me know how it goes.

 

[Hutbug]

thanks...

Thanks for the lacewing info - how did you find out they are non-toxic, I've looked all over the web and can't find a thing!

 

[Heika]

Thanks for the lacewing info - how did you find out they are non-toxic, I've looked all over the web and can't find a thing!

Here ya go.. this used to be an awesome website.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041208193825/www.chameleonjournals.com/husbandry/

 

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy Heika,

Thanks for that Archive link. Ever since Kathie shutdown the Chameleon Journals site, there have been many times that I wanted to point someone to various parts of it! Although not all sections got archived and the archive service appears to have stored it in Dec of 2004 (missing a year or two ), it is still full of useful info!

Hutbug: Glad that you made it over here .

If anyone knows how to reach Kathie Kaiwi, I'd like to figure out what it would take to get her site on the air again or at least a fully archived version of it. She started to transfer it to www.chameleonjournals.org but it never happened .

 

[Heika]

Hi Dave,

I just selected that date. There wasn't much updating after that, I don't think, and a lot of the later dates are from when the site was being shut down. Here is the full archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://chameleonjournals.com

It is kind of neat to go back to the beginning and watch its progress.

I think it would be great to see Chameleon Journals go back up. It was a wealth of information.

Heika

 

[Hutbug]

lacewings update

Well, I ordered eggs/larvae from a supplier, they never hatched, I re-ordered for free, and those never hatched. I found a new supplier, the larvae all disappeared, re-ordered for free, and those either never hatched or hatched and disappeared. I don't think Darwin ate them because they are REALLY small. They didn't eat the whiteflies, so in short, the lacewings experiment was a big bust! And I am just living with the whiteflies!