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Copyright © 2005 Bonnie Caruthers

Pselliopus nymph - Pselliopus cinctus

Strafford, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA
September 27, 2005
Size: 1/4"

he was flat just a while ago and now you can see his very full and green(!) belly. Neat how the color of its dinner shows thru!

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Pselliopus nymph - Pselliopus cinctus

Pselliopus nymph - Pselliopus cinctus

Pselliopus nymph - Pselliopus cinctus

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Contributed by Bonnie Caruthers on 7 October, 2005 - 11:55am
Last updated 2 July, 2020 - 11:48pm

Moved

Moved from nymphs.

… john and jane balaban, 2 July, 2020 - 11:48pm

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Feeding

What did you feed your assassin/Pselliopus? We just found one today and would like to keep him in a proper environment and watch him grow. We found three juvenille wheel bugs the other day and another Pselliopus. The assassins are taking over our ranch. =)

… Annette Daniel, 16 August, 2009 - 8:01pm

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green things!

lol! I took these shots back in 2005 but I looked at the tagged photo and see I made a comment about having fed it a green caterpillar. I have to look on an external hard rive to dig up the photos to see if i have other pics (I am sure I do) but as I recall I just unfurled leaves looking for tiny caterpillars. Anything soft bodied when they are this small are readily accepted. I currently have a little Zelus and had taken in a small group of either maple or oakworms (can't tell which yet) that came in on some polyphemus caterpillar food and have sacrificed them for its dinner ;)

Good luck with it! :) I'll let you know if I did up any more pics...

Annette, after posting above I did dig up another photo and even though it makes me a little queasy to look at even now (I am very partial to caterpillars because I rear them) it's a neat shot of the little fellow feeding on a Bombyx mori larva.

… Bonnie Caruthers, 16 August, 2009 - 9:12pm

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Moved

Moved from Pselliopus.

… v belov, 25 March, 2009 - 11:17am

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Great image

Looking at all your submissions, you get some great shots!

… Jim McClarin, 16 October, 2005 - 3:38am

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thanks!

I find mini-beasts to be some of the best subjects for photos - fun to make captions to go with them! lol!

… Bonnie Caruthers, 16 October, 2005 - 6:24pm

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