A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI
Posts tagged ‘Reduviidae’
This week we have a bonus bug, courtesy of my daughter
So, while I was finishing off the posting yesterday about the western conifer seed bug, my daughter came charging into the room with something in her hand, announcing “Take picture, Dada! Take picture!”[1] So, I did. This is what she had:
This one is an assassin bug. It’s actually in the same family (Reduviidae) as the Thread-Legged Bug from last week, but it certainly doesn’t look like it:
Specifically, I think it is Reduvius personatus, commonly known as the “Masked Hunter”.
I’ve never seen one of these before, but I think that’s because they’re hard to spot, not because they’re particularly rare:
This is a “thread-legged bug” that I found in the bottom of the wheelbarrow after moving some old lumber. At first, I thought it was a tiny splinter of wood, before I realized that it seemed to be levitating slightly[1]. The legs are long, thin, and practically invisible, hence the name.