Found on cucumber plant. Leave or kill with extreme prejudice?

[Batboy]

On cucumber plants.

Northeast US.

 

[Chuck]

On cucumber plants. View attachment 13938 View attachment 13939 Northeast US.View attachment 13938 View attachment 13939

Congratulations! You are the proud parent of lacewings and those are their larvae. Encourage them, don't hurt them. They are death on things like aphids and other soft bodied harmful insects and their larvae

 

[Beth_B]

That's good to know! I see those sometimes but they've never seemed associated with any plant damage so I let them be.

I see so many interesting insects in the garden...I always assume they are benign unless I find proof otherwise.

 

[atlmom5]

Oh, I've seen these before. Thanks Chuck for the information, now I know these are actually good guys.