Native bark assassin bugs

[Lucanus95]

Here are two species of native bark assassins I keep.

Microtomus purcis

Melanistic individual popped up in 3rd generation

Homalocoris erythrogaster

 

[Lucanus95]

Hope this inspires people to start appreciating native Reduviid diversity.

 

[coniontises]

The bugs are not always greener on the other side of the fence!

 

[Lucanus95]

The bugs are not always greener on the other side of the fence!

Yep. We have some neat natives that are about as stunning as Platymeris IMO

 

[The wolf]

Those are beautiful you'd be lucky to find something like that in the uk

 

[Lucanus95]

Those are beautiful you'd be lucky to find something like that in the uk

Ya, from what I heard UK native reduviid diversity is really low

 

[The wolf]

Ya, from what I heard UK native reduviid diversity is really low

They are basically non existent and what we have si all probably under1cm

 

[Mpaul213]

Those are pretty cool, I will have to keep in touch with you.

 

[Lucanus95]

Those are pretty cool, I will have to keep in touch with you.

I'm open to trades

 

[Nathan Zhang]

Do you house the microtomus together?
do the adults cannibalize the nymphs?