Assassin Bug Nymph
A few nights ago I noticed something trundling across the carpet into the downstairs bathroom. I grabbed my camera and a flashlight and snapped this shot of an assassin bug nymph. I’m not really sure if it needed to go potty or if it was just up to get a glass of water.
If you haven’t seen these nymphs before on the site, they’re actually jet black: the white coating is lint and dirt that they glue to themselves with spittle to form camouflage. When they molt into their final adult form, they’ll discard the camouflage as well and be a beautiful, shiny blue-black.
Spent the evening hunting bugs with Steve Jackson in Austin, TX. We had a rockin good time, and got about a dozen postable pix between us.
Scott said,
June 25, 2008 @ 8:35 am
That’s awesome!