American Orange Assassin Bug Nymph
Pselliopus barberi (nymph)
A wingless juvenile found on low vegetation, leaf litter, and sunny edges where small insects pass by. It hunts by waiting still, then stabbing prey with a slender beak and injecting digestive saliva. Its diet is made up of soft-bodied insects and other tiny arthropods. The bright orange-and-dark pattern already hints at the warning colors of the adult, even before the wings develop.
- Type
- Venom
- Conservation status
- NE
Growth chain
- American Orange Assassin Bug Nymph
- American Orange Assassin Bug