#Assassin Bug

[sarahmackattack]

Here we have a pale green assassin bug. Assassin bugs are as cool as they sound.

Take a look at the needle on the face of this little critter. They use that to pierce their prey (other insects), then inject stuff that dissolves their prey's innards then suck it out through that straw.

Metal.

[bedupolker]

Run your own race

[celestial-games]

A handful of nocturnal assassin bugs >:3

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

[wikipediapictures]

Apiomerus cazieri

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Have you done one about the horrid king assassin bug? They're one of my favorite bugs :)

[crevicedwelling]

juice box: a Zelus luridus assassin bug drinks the life out of a little parasitoid wasp.

the first legs in Zelus and some other assassin bugs are covered in glue-tipped hairs, which help hold onto tiny, fast moving prey. other species—I think a Southeast Asian genus—collect sticky tree sap and apply it to their legs!

[lazchance]

assassin bug eats ants and holds corpses on its back (Inara sp.)

while i wish i had taken better photos back then, heres an assassin bug that some of you might have heard of... it hides near ant colonies and hunts them off one by one... sucking out their juices (you can see this process happening to an unlucky ant in the first pic)

once its done feasting on its victim it places the corpse on its back, forming a large stack of all its victims corpses... apart from looking incredibly metal i believe this serves two purposes:

helps with visual camouflage from predators and curious photographers by looking like a clump of ants (they can stay still for pretty long

helps with pheromone camouflage from the ant colonies by smelling like ants... buffalo bill stuff

[fly-sky-high-arts]

Another Damascus commission for @mysterious-luck, thank you!

[teenycat]

i feel like i get withdrawal when i don't draw for too long. like i spent all week studying for exams and felt like crap and the moment i had a free evening i immediately spent 5 hours nonstop drawing.

it's not an addiction but i think i have become heavily dependent on it emotionally

.it's probably fiiiiine

anyway here's a bunch of other peoples' tlkoe ocs because i wanted an excuse to write a bunch of stupid dialogue

individual drawings and oc credits under the cut

⬆️ jack (canon books) and giselle (@ellaworldsworld)

⬆️cassi and cassi lol (cassidy and cassius) @justw0lfi3's and mine insp by this post

i impulsively decided to shave cassius' head. why not

⬆️ june (canon books) and clover (@crystalstarpaws3011 )

⬆️ shiloh (mine) and andrea (@automated4audacity)

⬆️ ok so left to right is: cassius, cassidy, jasmine (another of @justw0lfi3), andrea, jack and shiloh

aaand here the thing without text

[akadoodles]

Green Assassin Nymph

1708px by 2387px, Digital Oil Painting

The “Pale Green Assassin Bug” at work - I took a picture of him mid-meal before he scurried away with his snack, presumably a housefly!

[herpsandbirds]

my buddy found this funny little guy at his work today and saved him from a paint pan

we werent able to figure out what he was, we were hoping you may know?

found in Wyoming

Bug ID - WY, USA:

Hello, yesssss, this bugly little fellow is a Plains Bee Assassin (Apiomerus spissipes), family Reduviidae.

Species Apiomerus spissipes - Plains Bee Assassin - BugGuide.Net

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: NOVEMBER 2ND, 2024 | Image IDs: Three photos of a brown thread-legged bug on a window frame /End IDs.]

One may think this is a typical stick bug, but, as it turns out, this is actually a thread-legged bug, a type of assassin bug!

[onenicebugperday]

Bee mimic assassin bug, Notocyrtus sp., Reduviidae

Photographed in Ecuador by Andreas Kay

[redrcs]

It's another world.

Assassin Bug and prey on passionfruit vine.

In my garden.

[northerlyy]

Scarlet-bordered Assassin Bug (Rhiginia cruciata), taken April 25, 2025, in Georgia, US

A bit of an interesting lifer! I've been seeing these guys flying around me, but they either would never land or would spook too fast to get a good look. Fortunately, this guy landed right in front of me and politely stood still while I did my best to get pictures as the sun glared onto my camera display and made it impossible to tell if my image was in focus or not (horrific). This species is part of a subfamily referred to as millipede assassin bugs which, as the name would imply, exclusively prey on millipedes. They have evolved to specialize in hunting millipedes, possessing unique venom, mouthparts, and other physical features that allow them an advantage over other predators when hunting them. They're quite interesting, and may be the culprits of some millipede husks you find while digging through leaflitter!

[caseygenesis]