![]() Stehr found that the females produced an average of 178 eggs apiece. They will feed on the same leaves through their life cycle, raising their offspring and eventually their grandchildren on the same tree.Ĭopulation occurs soon after emerging and a few days later they begin laying their eggs on the underside of leaves. They overwinter under the bark of oaks and other trees, emerging after a few warm days to swarm on the emerging buckeye buds. It was first reported on yellow buckeyes by William Stehr in 1938, appropriately enough in Ohio. The buckeye lace bug, Corythucha aesculi is a North American native which co-evolved with the native buckeyes. Our buckeye lace bugs measured 3.5 mm in length. They are Hemiptera, defined by their specialized mouth parts used for sucking out plant juices. Lace bugs are tiny insects (2–10 millimetres or 0.08–0.39 inches) in the family Tingidae. Finally in a moment of biological brilliance, I Googled "buckeye lace bug" and immediately found identical pictures of our insect. I began thumbing through page after page of lace bug pictures in - there are over 2,000 species world wide - with no luck. Chris Barnhart who identified them as lace bugs. To View Host Plants for Butterflies for All butterfly families click hereīack from Swallowtail Caterpillar to Butterfly Host Plantsīack from Swallowtail Caterpillar to Easy Butterfly Garden.I showed enlarged macro photographs to Dr.
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