A shiny yellow and brown, wasp-like assassin bug resting on a leaf. It has jabbed and killed a much smaller trap-jaw ant using its proboscis and is feeding on it.

A shiny yellow and brown, wasp-like assassin bug resting on a leaf. It has jabbed and killed a much smaller trap-jaw ant using its proboscis and is feeding on it.

I hope today that you are the assassin #bug and not the ant.

[the ant took a beak in the knee]

#Reduviidae #Agriocoris flavipes
Soltis Center, Costa Rica (August)