Friday, May 4, 2012

Assassin Bug

While looking for the milkweed bugs in some fringed twinevine, I happened across an assassin bug apparently enjoying a little lunch.

Here's a tigher crop, showing the little aphid or larva it is eating. 

I thought it would be pretty simple to find an assassin bug on Bugguide.net but I really had a heck of a time.  Fortunately, there are many bug experts who know how to figure that out.  It is a Zelus renardii. 

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