Insect and Spider Identification: Need help identifying this bug

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Dwest001
Bucksport, SC

December 30, 2012 9:53 PM

Post #9371024

It is very small and I have found a few of these dead around the house lately. Is this a termite?

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Flapdoodle
Minot, ND

December 31, 2012 3:30 AM

Post #9371065

This is a lacewing, it appears to be a brown lacewing (family Hemerobiidae). These are beneficial, feeding on aphids, small caterpillars, and other small, soft-bodied insects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemerobiidae

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