Hatchlings are called nymphs and have different appearances from adults. Assassin bugs are predators that feed on other insects, so they inhabit trees and grassy areas where they can hunt bees ...

Acanthaspis petax does this, but its method of hunting and avoiding being hunted makes it stand out among fellow assassin bugs. Pictured: An Acanthaspis petax nymph with ant carcasses on its back.

Mike McClane in Chelsea photographed a cluster of tiny, just-hatched wheel bug nymphs, or assassin bugs, through a window in his house. The eggs hatched from their equally small honeycombed egg ...

A bug improves its hunting success by slathering itself in the sticky resin of a grass, in a rare example of tool use by insects. Australian assassin bugs, from the genus Gorareduvius, are often ...

The nymphs of certain assassin bug species use the corpses of their prey, ants, to camouflage themselves, attaching the dead ants to their backs after sucking them dry. It's thought that this ...