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This assassin bug has a host of tiny flies trying to share his prey which is hidden beneath his head. I see this quite often so there must be some spillage as the assassin eats.
This is another tiny nymph of an Assassin Bug in the family Reduviidae of the insect order Hemiptera, on a leaf of native Wild Sweetpea (Lathyrus vestitus) in the Fabaceae plant family. It looks spinier than the critter in my [Previous] photo. It looks serious! (San Marcos Pass, 31 May 2013)
I was so hoping to see a triple dining party but the black assassin, despite having the opportunity, inexplicably wandered away to another leaf. The orange assassin was left to dine in peace.
I was sitting on the patio and my son said, "Ooo! Look! A bug on your shoulder!" I jumped approximately four feet in the air. Mr. Happy Bug marched proudly back and forth across the top of the chair, I'm assuming in celebration and thus claimed it as his own.
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.
Kingdom=Animalia
Phylum=Arthropoda
Class=Insecta
Order=Hemiptera
Suborder=Heteroptera
Superfamily=Cimicomorpha
Family=Reduviidae
Subfamily=Harpactorinae
Genus=Gminatus?
common name=Assassin Bug
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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