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It feeds on caterpillars, small beatles, and other prey smaller than itself. Assassin bugs are generalist predators, so they'll eat most anything they can catch.
Thanks for that...definitely different. I'm not familiar with the Milkweed Assassin bug. I'll keep my eyes open for one.
Thanks for that...definitely different. I'm not familiar with the Milkweed Assassin bug. What does it assassinate? Wasps, milkweed bugs?
It looks like the large milkweed bug, but is actually a mimic. It's an assassin bug. The large milkweed bug looks like this: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/515.... Definitely easy to confuse the two at first glance.