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every year OH provides our home with a unique bug or insect. What's the name of this one? A juvenile box elder? It's less than an inch in length.
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Asked March 10, 2021, 4:40 PM EST
every year OH provides our home with a unique bug or insect. What's the name of this one? A juvenile box elder? It's less than an inch in length.
Fairfield County Ohio
Expert Response
This is an adult Orange Assassin Bug (Pselliopus barberi). They overwinter as an adult insect. How can one tell that it is an adult insect? Only adult insects have fully developed wings as this specimen does. It is a true bug in the Order Hemiptera. It is also a predator that eats other insects for its food throughout its life.
Here are some links to more information on this insect:
https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/viewSpecies.php?species=10380
http://www.americaninsects.net/ht/pselliopus-barberi-vs-cinctus.html
Thanks for the quick response. I've seen other assassin bugs in my yard, but never the orange type.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 8:19 AM, Ask Extension<<personal data hidden>> wrote:
You're welcome.
