Assassin bugs are ambush predators that move slowly towards their prey before rushing out and grabbing with the forelegs, injecting a secretion from the rostrum that has a quick paralytic action. The prey is then sucked dry. The bite is very painful to humans.
They are large, about 1 inch, in length.
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The eggs are laid in a ring around a plant stem.
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Will the real Cotton-Stainer please stand up. :)
1 comment:
I think this one is a Pyrrhocoridae, Dysdercus sp., not the mimic Reduviidae.
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