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Green bug feast on bee - Zelus renardii

Green bug feast on bee - Zelus renardii
Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
August 27, 2010
Size: Green insect approx 15mm
The green insect (body approx. 15mm long) captured the small (5mm) bee like insect in a Mexican Bird of Paradise flower(Casalpinia Mexicana). It pinned it down and proceeded to suck the innards of the bee with its long needle nose. After may be ten minutes the bee stopped moving. The green insect carried the bee away from the sun on the other side of the flower and continued to suck on the bee (at least it is what its looked like). The process lasted about half an hour total. I left for a few minutes and when I came back the green insect was still there but the bee had disapeared. I could not find traces of it in the gravel beneath the flowers.

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Moved
Moved from True Bugs.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

bee was a Halictus tripartitus
female

 
And the Assassin Bug
appears to be Zelus (not sure which one, though).

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