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What is it and what is it carrying? - Reduvius personatus

What is it and what is it carrying? - Reduvius personatus
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
October 6, 2011
I found this over two years ago clinging to the side of our cream colored couch cover which camouflaged it quite well - I wonder if that was deliberate. I flicked it off and some of that sand-like substance that was covering it's entire body fell off.
What is this critter? And more importantly, what was it carrying? Eggs? Some kind of disease?

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looks like a Reduvius personatus nymph

Masked Hunter
It's a masked hunter nymph, a type of assassin bug. That stuff on it's back is just natural camouflage from ground debris and dust that adhere some how on it when it crawls around..

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