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Bemidji, Minnesota
Summer 2013
This is one of several species in the genus Sinea, whose members are all distinguished from other assassin bugs (family Reduviidae) by the long spines covering their heads, forelegs, and prothorax.
A very plump and hungry looking assassin bug.
Perhaps with a big load of eggs to feed.
Perched on a giant ragweed leaf.
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Tres Rios Wetlands, near Tolleson, Phoenix Arizona. Identification of the Isocoma species tentative. Could be Isocome pluriflora, Isocoma acradenia, or Isocoma wrightii.
A rusted phantom-satyr butterfly (cithaerias prieta, as known as blushing phantom or pink-tipped satyr). Taken within the grounds of Tirimbina Rainforest Center, which includes the Lodge, hanging bridges, and the biological reserve, located near the town of La Virgen, in the Sarapiqui area.
My father-in-law, Larry, likes assassin bugs because they're so good at controlling garden pests. In the fall he took the egg clusters he came across and moved them near the rows with the most vulnerable plants. Come spring, he had a personal army of killers guarding his raspberries and squash.
Reduviidae - possibly Ploiaria sp with moults. I went to a web I have been watching for months, looking for the spider yet again when something made me have a second look. With my eyes I thought I could see some really unusual very fine legged spider on the web, like a fine grey mantis type spider less than 10 mm long and so fine, almost invisible. It got into many positions some very much like oxyopes spider so I took many photos and then took a close up of its face looking for eye shots and saw unusual eyes and then decided to go into the house and have a look on the big TV. It was then that I saw its proboscus, it was an asassin bug of some sort, and even had wings, most likely feeds on spiders. Thought you might be interested in an invisible camoflaged mimic spider predator.
I heard a strange sound in the grass and found a cicada complaining loudly..then I noticed the wheel bug.
Zelus sp.
Polyglypta sp.
Reversed Nikkor Lens.
The Plane Tree Park.
"El cazador"
Parque "El Haya", Xalapa, Veracruz. México
I am also hoping to find another one of these insects and take a better photo.
For a better look check out myrmician's: www.flickr.com/photos/myrmician/4192256907/
also the different stages in the comments on his link.
This is the same Assassin Bug (family Reduviidae) in the order Hemiptera perched on the same leaf of Wild Blackberry (Rubus ursinus) in the Rosaceae plant family as my [Previous] two photos. You can see the same leaf scar behind it. These assassin bugs look fast, but they move very slowly. This one has hardly moved for three days! The wings look golden. (San Marcos Pass, 12 October 2012)
*Sigh* This is almost the last photo of my trusty Nikon D300 camera which I've been using since June 2008. It finally died after 165,738 photos - as counted in the EXIF info. I guess it's fair, as I've heard the shutters are rated for 150,000 photos or so. The mirror started sticking UP after a photo, and I would have to take another photo or two to clear it. Finally today, it stayed up. See my first photo today.
Spotted on a column at the strip mall around 10:30 PM. This one had me completely stumped for a while. Thanks to Eric R. Eaton at bugguide.net/node/view/64270 for the ID.
Family Reduviidae. Says the University of Florida, "The Reduviidae vary greatly in body size and shape, ranging from small and either slender or robust to fairly long and slender like some walkingsticks. The characteristic that distinguishes them from all other hemipterans is the stout 3-segmented beak that fits into a grove on the prosternum. Once students view a number of specimens from the side and become familiar with this characteristic, this family is readily identified."
I couldn't decide which of these six images to post, so I decided to go with all of them. Three full size images and each of those cropped. I never knew how assassin bugs got their meals, but now I do!! ;)
This ambush bug has covered itself in pollen grains to blend in with the flower. Other Ambush bugs hang on the stem behind the petals, and rely on their natural green coloration to blend in.
True Bugs (Heteroptera)
Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae)
Ambush Bugs (Phymatinae)
Phymata sp?
this is some type or relative of the Assassin Bug. It was on a leaf and struck this defensive pose when the gardener got too close.
A freshly-emerged nymph on the move! The circular dots are the inside seals for the pods. Note that another nymph is emerging from a bottom pod.
A pollen-coated assassin bug, Rhynocoris ventralis. Virginia Dale Rest Area on Hwy 287 in Larimer County, Colorado, just south of the Wyoming border. June 7, 2018.
This is another remarkable Assassin Bug (family Reduviidae) in the order Hemiptera perched on a leaf of Wild Blackberry (Rubus ursinus) in the Rosaceae plant family. You can see its amazing proboscis tucked under it's head. (San Marcos Pass, 11 October 2012)
If you compare my [Newer] photo taken yesterday, you can see the same brown scar on the leaf. This little bug hasn't moved at all!