Showing posts with label assassin bug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assassin bug. Show all posts

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.