'Assassin bug' is a pretty cool name for these things. But any help with the scientific name would be cool too.

A cute little lady bug on my finger in the front yard.

2 red bugs on our lilium plants. Taken with macro mode on the new canon powershot sx200 (handheld)......

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First day with my 50mm 1.8

day 109: a lady bug macro

A few odd little bugs

~ Hidden Lake

Lake Metroparks

Part of the Backyard Baby collection. Instead of quilting, I used a fuzzy flannel backing for a lighter weight blanket.

the sort of bug that would have made me drop my camera!

Bug-In 38 - vw drag racing; custom car show, huge swap meet and vendor display at Irwindale Speedway

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Stink Bug

A red legged shield bug (Pentotoma rufipes) on a bush.

Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire

Bug on a leaf...nothing much to see here!! :)

Probably saturated a bit too much for everyone's liking!!

The native bush weta. This fellow was found in Raewyn's letter box trying to read her mail. We put him in his natural habitat, took his photo before he ran away into the undergrowth.

I'd be sympathetic, but I think it's a mosquito. Bleurgh!

Bugs come in different shapes and sizes. This is a small ant, so the "dirt bug" is only 3-4mm. It comes with legs and looks strange when walking.

'k not a great shot , it was fast, but c'mon, it's kinda funny.

Golf Mk4

Is this another tree bug? I'm not sure...

Reduviidae (from the contained genus, Reduvius which comes from the Latin reduvia meaning hangnail or remnant) is a large, cosmopolitan family of predatory insects in the suborder Heteroptera. It includes assassin bugs (genera include Melanolestes, Platymeris, Pselliopus, Rasahus, Reduvius, Rhiginia, Sinea, Triatoma, and Zelus), wheel bugs (Arilus cristatus), and thread-legged bugs (the subfamily Emesinae, including the genus Emesaya). There are about 7000 species altogether, making it one of the largest families in the Hemiptera.

Fayetteville Observer night at the Antz game.

Spa-francorchamps

Some cool bug along the path. Great camouflage, but the poor little guy almost got stepped on.

the first new generation Sloe Bug of the summer on the leaves of Verbascum in the garden

I do not know what kind it is.

In the Camarillo Village Square parking lot ~ Camarillo, CA

[Old Timer SlugBug = 2 slugs.]

Today we encountered bugs arguing. Does anyone know what the bugs are called? Photo taken in Söderåsen National Park, Sweden.

House Centipede.

In our climbing toward Jenner we rested for a while, and I saw this amazingly colored little creature. Too bad I didn't have a macro lens in my gear...

Canon EOS 50D + 17-50mm, f2.8 lens

@ 50mm, f4, 1/15, ISO100

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I never saw a bug like this one.

This small bug (around a centimetre long) was crawling around on the patio table. I have no idea what sort of bug it is.

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We have lots of these in our garden.

im not sure if this is a squash bug, or a broad-headed bug... cant tell from this angle...

these guys feed on plant sap, can be quite a bother for gardeners i assume.

Southern oak bush cricket nymph on the underside of a rhododendron leaf. They do have rather long antennae