Photos of a lacewing. Saratoga is full of these blue-eyed metamorphs

Lacewings and their relatives are everywhere in my Saratoga, NSW garden, and sometimes (like this one) in the bathroom as well. The eggs are laid underneath just about anything they can find in a white, U-shaped arrangement, hanging down as if on stilts. The larvae make their way (fall?) down to the ground (or into my washing) and look absolutely weird, even other-worldly. They have a gnarly, woolly look about them with false appendages and spikes on which to embed and display prey. One lacewing relative produces antlion larvae that live in sandy soil at the bottom of conical ant-traps. They all metamorphose into various types of wonderfully delicate lacewings, like this blue-eyed variety.

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