Perhaps the phrase should be "snug as a bug in a rock." University of Illinois entomology graduate student Daniel Swanson was able to see the intimate details of an assassin bug's genitalia in a ...

Then there are those that are discovered by accident, which is how Dr. J. E. McPherson, professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University, discovered a new species of assassin bug.

Feast your eyes on this 50-million-year-old assassin bug and its exquisite genitalia Delicate insect genitalia are rarely retained as fossils. By Kate Baggaley Published Jan 20, 2021 3:09 PM EST ...

One group of insects, the assassin bugs, can be seen using tree resin to catch prey in this fascinating YouTube clip. Let’s take a closer look at exactly how they do it and the significance of ...

Assassin bugs, which belong to an insect family called Reduviidae, date at least as far back as the Jurassic. In the eons since, the group has splintered substantially, with more than 7,000 known ...

To start with, assassin bugs are rare in the fossil record. Despite there being over 7,000 species of these familiar bugs alive today, only about 50 have ever been found as fossils.

Spiders remain dangerous prey. The assassin bugs, for all their stealth, only catch their prey around 20 percent of the time, and about one in ten of them become meals for the spiders.

One group of insects, the assassin bugs, can be seen using tree resin to catch prey in this fascinating YouTube clip. Let’s take a closer look at exactly how they do it and the significance of ...