"Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing" Strategy of a Predaceous Insect Larva

@article{Eisner1978WolfinSheepsClothingSO,
  title={"Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing" Strategy of a Predaceous Insect Larva},
  author={Thomas Eisner and Karen Hicks and Maria Eisner and D. S. Robson},
  journal={Science},
  year={1978},
  volume={199},
  pages={790 - 794},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11558335}
}
The larva of the green lacewing Chrysopa slossonae lives in colonies of the wooly alder aphid Prociphilus tesselatus upon which it feeds. It disguises itself as its prey by plucking some of the waxy…
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