Lately I saw a bright green Zelus luridus nymph — the intermediate stage in the life cycle of the assassin bug — motionless on the side of the house near a spider web.

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 ...

"They are all at the biggest stage [in their life cycle], but they will be laying eggs and dying off over the next few weeks." Wheel Bugs, according to the Department of Entomology at Virginia ...

The milkweed assassin bug is orange and black and has a narrow body with long black legs. You see them hanging around the tops of a wide variety of shrubs, flowers and vegetables, waiting for prey ...

A 50-million-year-old assassin bug offers a rare peek at reproductive structures that aren’t usually visible in fossilized insects. The “extraordinarily well-preserved” male genitalia of the ...