assassin bug in English
noun
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a long-legged predatory or bloodsucking bug that occurs chiefly in the tropics and feeds mainly on other arthropods. Some of those that bite humans can transmit microorganisms such as the one causing Chagas’ disease.
An assassin bug passes by and eats the clutch for breakfast.
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1. I grabbed my camera and a flashlight and snapped this shot of an assassin bug nymph.
2. Bug definition is - any of an order (Hemiptera and especially its suborder Heteroptera) of insects (such as an assassin Bug or chinch Bug) that have sucking mouthparts, forewings thickened at the base, and incomplete metamorphosis and are often economic pests —called also true Bug