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Assassin bug
Assassin bug
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Potent predators for their size (note the powerful beak), Assassin Bugs mostly eat other insects. They inject digestive fluid into prey, and suck out their victims' juices.

This group is well represented in Madagascar, where many species sport warning coloration. This one seems to give potential prey, as well as other predators, plenty of opportunity to notice it.

Its less colorful relative, the large, dark Wheel Bug (1 1/4-inch-long Arilus cristatus) can be found in the eastern United States.

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Contents:
1.Ranomafana National Park
2.Analamazoatra Special Reserve
3.Montagne d'Ambre National Park
4.Masoala
Peninsula

 ·Beach at Ambanizana
 ·Black and yellow spider
 ·Red clawed crab
 ·Large red and black frog
 ·Green Treefrog
 ·Ambanizana River
 ·Red Ruffed Lemur call
 ·Red and black click beetle
 ·Purple flowers
 ·Fungus Weevil
 ·Green and black frog
 ·Green chameleon
 ·Assassin bug
 ·Hopper
 ·Snail on Gravesia leaf
 ·Gravesia leaf and fruit
 ·Decaying leaf
 ·Ambohitsi-
tondroina hilltop

5.Nosy Mangabe Special Reserve
6.Former rainforest near Sambava
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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