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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Superfamily: Cimicomorpha
Family: Reduviidae
An assassin bug (on the far right of the plant, he's grey), a carpenter bee (the big one), and a honey bee. This plant is very popular, and there are a few others just like it.
This video actually needs to be rotated 90 degrees ccw, but I have no idea how to do that.
Assassin bug, Zelus sp., waiting for a potential victim. Colorado Springs Utilities xeriscape demonstration gardens, Colorado, USA. July 13, 2020.
This is a different Assassin Bug (family Reduviidae, in the insect order Hemiptera) perched on a fern leaflet in the Oregon woods. It has a frosted head and thorax, and a rather "depleted" abdomen. I don't know what it is. (Near Susan Creek, North Umpqua River, Oregon, 17 August 2012)
I've been on the lookout for walking sticks and thought I had one with this bug on the side of the house. But no, this is an assassin bug, a thread-legged bug. 45 mm long including the body length plus the extended forelegs. September 9, 2022
I was watching this assassin bug and just happened to snap a shot as this bee flew by. Assassin bugs are fast but I've never seen one grab a bug out of the air.
Here is a different Assassin Bug (Reduviidae) about to fly away from me from flower bracts of native Bird's Beak (Cordylanthus rigidus, Orobanchaceae) in the woods today. Hah, they always seem to be leaving! I believe this little assassin is species Pselliopus spinicollis, no doubt waiting for pollinators to come by. I usually find a few of these little predators from February to April, so it's interesting to find so many of them now. I've posted 18 photos of these assassins at Flickr since 2012, and six of them are taken since August. (San Marcos Pass, 16 September 2020)
Just two photos today. We had an unscheduled power outage that started at 11:15 pm last night. Dinner time was approaching after a day without power, so we decided to go to town for takeout and ice - and wouldn't you know, the power was back on by the time we got home, around 7:00 pm. I got a fair number of decent photos today which can wait for tomorrow. The hell of it is that we have a maintenance power outage scheduled for all day Monday. I hope enough people complain that they change it - but I doubt it.
This is looking straight-down on another late-instar nymph of an Assassin Bug in the Reduviidae family of the order Heteroptera, Hemiptera perched on a leaf in the mint patch of the garden this morning. I don't think I've ever seen one with such straight antennae. I've been finding a lot of these lately. It might well be a Leafhopper Assassin Bug (Zelus renardii). (San Marcos Pass, 7 September 2015)
Photographed at the Lexington Wildlife Management Area, Oklahoma, on 13 May 2017.
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... except for that red eye...
Zelus luridus - my first. I spotted him on a plant by the road out front of my house over the weekend and took a ton of shots of him. Some of them came out. =)
Ran into my first wheel bug at the rookery. Hard to tell from this angle but it has a cog-like projection like a circular saw blade that raises up from its back that gives it that name. It is the largest assassin bug. It is considered beneficial in the garden as it eats other insects. However be careful, it gives a very painful bite if you try to handle it.
Wheel Bug (Arilus cristatus)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery
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Kingdom=Animalia
Phylum=Arthropoda
Class=Insecta
Order=Hemiptera
Suborder=Heteroptera
Superfamily=Cimicomorpha
Family=Reduviidae?
Common name=Assassin bug
Another critter I've seen before but didn't have a clue about until I did some searching last night... To the best of my knowledge, this is an assassin bug, appropriately named since they are frequently found hanging out on flowering plants awaiting bees and other prey. I've yet to obtain a good ID on the flowers but they're rather common along brushy woodlines here, such as the one where I shot this yesterday afternoon (9-28-2011).
This pollinating fly made a smart decision between these two flowers. The other one has a camouflaged ambush bug sitting in the middle of it.
True Bugs (Heteroptera)
Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae)
Ambush Bugs (Phymatinae)
Phymata sp?
Zelus luridus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae). Shenandoah River State Park, Warren County, VA 29 September 2012