A couple of days ago, I glanced at some potato plants in my garden and in the corner of my eye noticed a yellow and black-striped bug crawling over the leaves. It was a four-striped plant bug.

Mike McClane in Chelsea photographed a cluster of tiny, just-hatched wheel bug nymphs, or assassin bugs, through a window in his house. The eggs hatched from their equally small honeycombed egg cas… ...

While the yellow-, black- and white-striped monarch caterpillars eat the milkweed foliage, they absorb the toxins that render them and adult butterflies distasteful to birds, lizards and other ...

As they mature, nymphs progress through several instar stages, becoming somewhat elongate adults of varying color and pattern. There are many species of assassin bugs.