#-assassin bug

[bedupolker]

Run your own race

[postcards-and-postcrossing]

Animal Stamps

The Netherlands – 2011 Buffalo Germany – 2023 Cat Canada – 2023 Mother and Baby Sea Otter. Designer Meredith MacKinlay, of Halifax-based Egg Design, chose embroidery as the basis for the design because of the association that fabrics have with feelings of homeyness and familial love – and because needlework lends texture to the animals’ fur and feathers. Temagami Anishinaabe artist Caroline…

[celestial-games]

A handful of nocturnal assassin bugs >:3

Featuring millepede assassin, bark assassin, black corsair and western corsair !

[beetlecirice]

Yall need to sit the fuck down and watch A Bug's Life, okay???

[brbarou]

thanks robin hobb for giving them exactly one proper scene. awesome

[greenlaut]

ubisoft is really doing fuckall with their literal franchise firstborn (assassin's creed (the first game)). why the fuck is the pirated version running more stable than the official software. altaïr doesn't even have a significant figurine or a limited edition type shit. they jumped straight to the golden second child ezio and made HIM the poster child. the fuck.

[linkedin-offficial]

gave archer a rework

[textless]

Everybody loves milkweed vine, or milkweed-loving prey.

Cochise County, Arizona, September 2024.

[afrotumble]

This is not camouflage. It’s a trophy of the dead.

Meet the Assassin Bug nymph — nature’s youngest warlord. But this baby doesn’t hide. It wears the fallen.

After ambushing and draining ants alive, it stacks their empty exoskeletons on its back like armor. One by one. Shell by shell. Until it’s walking beneath a moving pile of corpses.

Why? Because ants are aggressive, and smell plays everything in the insect world. By wearing dead ants, it confuses predators and masks its scent — hiding in plain death.

It doesn’t run. It doesn’t beg. It builds its shield from what it slays.

It’s not hiding. It’s declaring war.

Written by Eyasin Ali

[petrii-dish]

Go, my bug warriors 🦂🪰

Scor-frin and Mir-aphid! Siffrin is a namib thicktail scorpion (so niche but the pattern works well…) and Mirabelle is a woolly aphid!

I haven’t worked on my bug au in a bit so I’m dropping these two here before they get buried in the wip timeloop forever

[fanfenomenon]

just remembered that after haytham exposed washington to connor he was still glowing blue when you activate connor’s eagle vision guys i think im gonna be sick im gonn a-

[celestialmacros]

Still one of my favorites. A bug that made me realize what a crazy tiny world was out there that I knew so little about.

Orange Assassin Bug (Pselliopus barberi)

May 31, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[onenicebugperday]

Female pelican spider (with prey), Eriauchenus workmani, Archaeidae

Also called assassin spiders, pelican spiders in the family Archaeidae prey exclusively on other spiders.

Photographed in Madagascar by Frank Deschandol // Instagram

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

I think it's going rather well.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Wheel Out the Wheel Bug

The wheel bug, also known as Arilus cristatus, is a member of the assassin bug family found throughout eastern North and Central America. They thrive in a variety of environments including grasslands, deciduous and tropical forests, and gardens; anywhere where flowers are abundant.

The wheel bug is so named for the distinctive, spiny wheel-shaped hump along its thorax and abdomen. The body is otherwise elongated and dark grey with white spotting. As an assassin bug, the species also sports an enlarged proboscis for deeding. This species is also noted for being one of the largest true bugs endemic to North America, at a whopping 3.8 cm (1.5 in) long.

As an assassin bug, A. cristatus is a voracious predator within its natural habitat. Individuals catch caterpillars, beetles, sawfly larvae, aphids, and stink bugs with their long forelimbs and then inject their target with a potent paralytic, dissolving its insides and slurping up the resulting soup. Due to their spiky bodies and painful bite, the wheel bug has few natural predators. However, eggs are often prey to parasitic wasps.

Wheel bugs begin mating in September and continues throughout the fall. After mating, the female lays anywhere from 40 to 200 eggs on a leaf, in a cluster resembling a cylindrical honeycomb. The eggs incubate over the winter and juveniles emerge the following spring. They mature throughout the summer and become full adults the following fall, where they mate and then die.

Conservation status: The wheel bug has not been evaluated by the IUCN, but populations are widely dispersed throughout its range and the species is generally ecologically stable. In many areas, it is one of the only predators of other invasive or pest insect species.

Photos

Rick Kelly

Seth Ausubel

Richard Orr

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