And every other part of your body is the mantra of this bug. Depending on what resource you read, these are either good bugs or bad bugs. Personally, I view them as both, but if I see them on my Butterfly plants they get squashed. This is an Assassin bug. From what I understand they stick that long proboscis into their prey and suck them dry, guts and all. I’ve seem them go after some small Butterfly caterpillars quite a few times. I photographed this bug on my Passion Vine. He was obviously eating some other insect but I don’t think it was a caterpillar.
My weapon of choice for these guys? A long pair of tweezers works perfectly:-).
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Assassin Bug
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