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Armed with hollow, sickle-shaped jaws, these monsters of a horror movie impale soft-bodied insects like aphids and mites, injecting digestive enzymes to liquefy their insides before sucking them dry. To make things stranger, larvae of many <em>Chrysopa<\/em> species are &#8220;trash-packers&#8221;\u2014they collect dead insect corpses, plant debris, and shed skins, piling the gruesome debris onto their own backs as a grotesque camouflage shield against predators. Once fully fed, they spin tiny, perfectly spherical silk cocoons on stems to undergo metamorphosis. During a cycling trip through Sweden in June 2026, I often saw these delightful insects drifting through the grass like a fleeting green mist. 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