Assassin Bug with it's meal

12 years 10 months ago #86395 by Screamin Scott
Nice to see this forum picking up steam & posts....Since Randy posted some shots earlier, the wind has died down here (calm before the storm?), so I went out to the garden to see what I could find. There were almost no bees (due to approaching storm?) but then I spotted this Assassin Bug with a bee in it's beak...









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12 years 10 months ago #86403 by Baydream
Cool shots, Scott.

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12 years 10 months ago #86413 by chasrich
Very cool shots. This bug looks hungry - maybe he ate the other bees?

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12 years 10 months ago #86419 by Screamin Scott
Went back out for some more shots & found a little Bee hiding in the petals as well...Seems the insect dips it's proboscis repeatedly into different parts of its prey...








& Here's the Bee



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12 years 10 months ago #86481 by mj~shutterbugg
Great shots, but I feel really bad for the poor bee. He just seems so wounded in the last image.

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12 years 10 months ago #86547 by dang
Great series Scott. I haven't seen this particular assassin before, any idea of it's species?
Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work.
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12 years 10 months ago #86559 by photobod
Thats a cool name for a bug "assasin bug" brilliant.

This forum is turning into the macro forum :rofl: we are all catching the bug, scuse the pun. :rofl:
great work Scott
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12 years 10 months ago #86591 by robbie
Wow!!Awesome series,'KILLER' shots!!


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12 years 10 months ago #86605 by Shadowfixer1
Nicely done Scott. Those little buggers are out there, you just have to look hard sometimes. Good job!!
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12 years 10 months ago #87035 by Screamin Scott
Went out to the flower bed again today & it's still there...Had another one of those little bees...Also got some shots of a juvenile "stink bug" but I had trouble getting the focus down pat on it...

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