Assassin Bug [HELP]

[Moosashi]

Certain assassins eat insects and certain species are blood feeders. An insect eater will never drink blood (just as you can't feed your mantids on oak leaves even though they are related to walkingsticks). Since the eggs came in on a plant and not from an animal burrow, it's extremely unlikely they'd be anything but an insect eater. Some large insect feeders can give a good defensive bite but small ones could never break the skin (if you accidently sat on one you'd never know it).

yeah, I tossed in some wingless fruit flies, drosophylla melanogaster, and the little mercenaries promptly surrounded the flies, 3 to a fly, and began skewering the flies with their needle mouthparts. I saw a couple of assassins carrying their newly caught flies around on the walls of the container. I'll go take some pics of the little orange and black nymphs. Their head, abdomen and thorax are orange, while only their legs are all black.

 

[Moosashi]

sent the bugs to Andrew so they'd have a good home! they made the trip from GA to CA safely, woot.