Assassin bugs (also known as ambush bugs or thread-legged bugs) are one of nature's stealthiest hunters, known for their precision strikes and ability to subdue prey with incredible efficiency.

Thread-legged assassin bugs (Stenolemus bituberus, shown) use stealthy movements and antennae taps to hunt dangerous spiders on their own webs.A. Wignall ...

Thread-legged bugs, like other assassin bugs, are predators of other insects and arthropods. 17-year cicadas are coming to Asheville, Western NC soon: What to know about the emergence.

If a thread stands between them and their spider prey, they’ll simply grab it with their front legs and pull it apart. It’s a risky move. The threads of a web are held in tension, like taut ...

But the assassin bug flips this defense on its head. The researchers observed that the assassin bug deliberately collects resin with its fore- and mid legs, coats its legs, and then lures guard ...

Here in coastal Texas, if you step outside into your garden or flower bed, you may find an unusual looking critter known as an assassin bug. When I visited the ...

After the thread broke, the bug held onto the loose ends. The result was avoiding rapid recoils and reducing vibrations in the web. A giraffe assassin bug (top) stalks its prey: a spider in its web.

The feather-legged assassin bug ignores both of these rules. These insects hunt even while they are immature nymphs, often targeting venomous ants bigger than themselves. And to do so, they lure ...

50 million-year-old fossil assassin bug has unusually well-preserved genitalia. The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice.

Assassin bugs (also known as ambush bugs or thread-legged bugs) are one of nature's stealthiest hunters, known for their precision strikes and ability to subdue prey with incredible efficiency. The ...