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I see these every year in the garden, in late summer when the new generation appears, and again in the spring after the adults have overwintered.
Ambush bugs
Bluff Spring Fen, Elgin IL USA
I think ambush bugs are fascinating. They're like tiny armored vehicles or mini-dinosaurs.
An inmature form (nymph) of an assasing bug. A fierce predator of other insects.
Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Pselliopus sp.
It’s that time of year when stink bugs think they should be living inside the house. This one was on my office window back in April 2016. The ones that enter get gently picked up with a tissue and escorted back outside.
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Ever been bitten by a love bug? 3 Harlequin Beetles on a Hibiscus leaf shaped like a heart. These beetles are sap-suckers and you can see the damage they've done to this leaf.
Bug! The Flickr Friday theme of Bug aligned in a rather odd way with this weekend's COVID car cruise, where local car enthusiasts drove through neighborhoods in their automobiles. I present my entry for Bugs!
The wheel bug is poised to grab this honeybee. He will use his hooked legs to hold her and then impale the bee with his beak. The beak (rostrum) extends (folds out), impales and then injects toxin and digestive juices into prey. By reversing flow this beak then serves as a straw.
In this photograph the wheel bug's posture reminds me of Count Dracula trying to hypnotize a victim he plans to impale. It did not work as this time the bee escaped.
Rostrum: www.amentsoc.org/insects/glossary/terms/rostrum
The Wheel Bug Rap
Said (or sung) with a funky beat
Your nose is a hypodermic needle,
Your back has wings to fly,
Your legs have hooks to grasp your prey,
And hold them till they die.
(Chorus)
They call you wheel bug,
Cause your back is a wheel,
It's shape is kinda rough.
You're a real bug!
With wings, six legs,
And lots of other insect stuff.
Your head is shaped like two arrows,
Right On It ... a beak and three eyes,
With two feelers of red, you're a sight to dread!
Mr. Wheel Bug ... you're a scary guy.
(Chorus)
Your beak extends like a switch blade,
It's pointed and hollow and kills!
It's a real poison pen ... but there's more!
It's a straw to drink your meals.
(Chorus)
Wheel bug you're so ... prehistoric,
It's good you're only ... one inch long,
I'm glad you're a bug and I'm not one,
And that's the end of this song.
Link to the wheel bug rap: www.flickr.com/photos/drphotomoto/3002340775/
It was early in the morning (5:00 AM). Usko has to go to his toilette and I saw this bug in the first ray of lights!
Common Assassin Bugs (Pristhesancus plagipennis) have the long head with powerful proboscis. They use the powerful proboscis to puncture their prey. Their legs are long so that they have long attack distance. Adult bugs are brown in colour with transparent wings. Nymphs are dark brown to black with brightly orange abdomens.
Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC)
#bugs for #FlickrFriday
These are firebugs. In Russia, we call them soldier-bugs. There are a lot of them in spring and summer, and while they may look threatening because of their bright-red colour, they are not really harmful. They do not bite humans or animals, nor do they damage the agricultural crops very much.
Also, while I was googling what they are called in English, I found out that when firebugs are in this position, they are, in fact, mating.
Black, bites on human, hunts you out wherever you rest. Nest finally found in open bag of multi bird seed. Eats seeds.
Climbs walls
Found in bathroom
then tracked next room dryer machine, humid conditions where large open bag of bird seed was.
Fly n bug killer sprayed regularly now.
Some Weevils can reproduce young on their own.