Animals Kingdom (Animalia)

• Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

• Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

• Insects (Class Insecta)

• Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

• True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies (Order Hemiptera)

• True Bugs (Subrder Heteroptera)

Lace bugs a have piercing-sucking mouthpart that removes plant sap from leaf tissue. Female lace bugs insert eggs along leaf veins. These eggs have a yellow cap. Here they have been inserted along the leaf midrib. Once hatched, nymphs are tiny, shiny, and spiny.