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ASSASSIN BUGS LIVE UP TO THEIR NAME
Newspaper article from: Sun Publications (IL); 6/17/1998; 700+ words
; Q: We have some ugly bugs in our yard. They are...to look at. It is an assassin bug. In the insect world...that really are called bugs. The bugs are in the Order Hemiptera...and do not have the name bug. Most are plant eaters...
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The last days of an Assassin. (Endpaper).(wheel bug)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Natural History; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...notoriously toxic, I expected the wheel bug to die. A wheel bug (Arilus cristatus) is both fearsome...that it belonged to the family of assassin bugs and could have stabbed me. My...looking as lively as a wheel bug gets. I wondered what else it...
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In the heat of the night: an assassin bug's sensory journey.
Magazine article from: Natural History; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...nightly search for blood. They are called kissing bugs or assassin bugs in English, but in Latin America they have many regional...pierces the skin of its victim. As it feeds, the bug injects a cocktail of analgesics, anticoagulants...
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 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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THE HITMAN TAPES; EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL REPORT CRIME INC. Police bug caught two gangland assassins saying they would get away with murder.(News)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); 5/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...hitmen Raymond Anderson and James McDonald were caught by a police bug in their car boasting that they had got away with murder. A...involved in the hit and throw police off the scent. The police bug placed in Anderson's car showed how sure the hitmen were they...
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The last days of an assassin
Magazine article from: Natural History; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...notoriously toxic, I expected the wheel bug to die. A wheel bug (Arilus cristatus) is both fearsome...that it belonged to the family of assassin bugs and could have stabbed me. My...looking as lively as a wheel bug gets. I wondered what else it...
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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In search of back-stabbing assassins in the flower beds of Hyde Park.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 2/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...charmed to find back-stabbing assassins lurking in flower beds, hordes...what most people would call bugs. He set boundaries. He would...among the more interesting bugs," said LaBarbera. "They...He has pictures of ambush bugs that hide in milkweed, ready...liquefy their insides, and ...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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New species of assassin spiders
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 2/13/2006; ; 447 words
; ...Madagascar have found that tiny assassin spiders, grotesque-looking bugs that prey on other spiders...species could shed light on how assassin spiders evolved, and perhaps...including the nine new species of assassin spiders, during a four-year...
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Scientists Discover New Assassin Spiders
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/13/2006; ; 399 words
; ...Madagascar have found that tiny assassin spiders, grotesque-looking bugs that prey on other spiders...species could shed light on how assassin spiders evolved, and perhaps...including the nine new species of assassin spiders, during a four-year...
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Madagascar yields 9 new types of assassin spiders
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/13/2006; ; 448 words
; ...Madagascar have found that tiny assassin spiders, grotesque-looking bugs that prey on other spiders...species could shed light on how assassin spiders evolved and perhaps...including the nine new species of assassin spiders, during a four-year...
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California scientists discover new species of assassin spiders in Madagascar
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/12/2006; ; 378 words
; ...Madagascar have found that tiny assassin spiders, grotesque-looking bugs that prey on other spiders...species could shed light on how assassin spiders evolved, and perhaps...including the nine new species of assassin spiders, during a four-year...
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assassin bug
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
assassin bug common name for members...Heteroptera). Assassin bugs are generally brownish...prey. Most assassin bugs are found on foliage...venom produced by the bug, the effect of which...name, the kissing bug. In the Southwest assassin bugs of the genus ...
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True Bugs
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...include the tarnished plant bug ( Lygus lineolaris ), which...crop plants, the apple red bug ( Lygidea mendax ), the cotton...and the four-lined plant bug ( Poecilocapsus lineatus...causes significant damages. The assassin bugs (family Reduviidae) are mostly...
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bug
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...plant juices (e.g., the squash bug and chinch bug ); however, some suck the blood...insects and spiders (e.g., the assassin bug and backswimmer ). Others, such...g., the stinkbug ). The true bugs are classified in the phylum Arthropoda...
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wheel bug
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
wheel bug see assassin bug .
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kissing bug
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
kissing bug see assassin bug .
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