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  • 2 weeks later...
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wow! very nice, awesome assassins:) gotta love em,great find.

 

Thanks :)

This is the most beautiful species of assassins I've seen. Adults have stunning color :)

  • 6 months later...
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Very nice. Do you have any more details on the life cycle / longevity / rearing requirements for this species?

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Very nice. Do you have any more details on the life cycle / longevity / rearing requirements for this species?

I think there are life cycle details in the assassin bug book you have (it used to be called Hammatocerus). However I don't think there is anything on longevity, only about a year for adults.

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Very nice. Do you have any more details on the life cycle / longevity / rearing requirements for this species?

 

Unfortunately, Idk much about their biology.

Kyle told me that they seemed to like to lay eggs at semi-dry environment so I'm keeping my eggs in such environment :)

Also, Kyle told me that the nymphs that hatched ate each other so I think it's safe to say that these guys can't be reared in groups when they are young.

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I don't remember seeing nymphs eat each other but the small ones are escape artists and cannot be kept in cages usually used for the Afr. spp.


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Last assassin bug I caught poked his proboscis through my surgical latex glove and injected his fluid, it hurt so bad. Be careful handling them if you make them mad or hold them wrong it's not good, that one looks very similar to the one that got me. I was grabbing it to put in the killing jar. I was amazed how he escaped me.

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Last assassin bug I caught poked his proboscis through my surgical latex glove and injected his fluid, it hurt so bad. Be careful handling them if you make them mad or hold them wrong it's not good, that one looks very similar to the one that got me. I was grabbing it to put in the killing jar. I was amazed how he escaped me.

 

Thank you for the warning, but I believe it's too late. I already got bitten by one last year. lol

  • 3 weeks later...
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I don't remember seeing nymphs eat each other but the small ones are escape artists and cannot be kept in cages usually used for the Afr. spp.

 

 

Were you able to breed them or were the nymphs collected from the wild? Seems that larger nymphs won't prey on each others.

  • 2 weeks later...
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Good luck! I caught a couple of those last year and I had a lot of fun with them :) It was nice to keep a large reduviid that wasn't a wheel bug

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Good luck! I caught a couple of those last year and I had a lot of fun with them :) It was nice to keep a large reduviid that wasn't a wheel bug

 

Thank you :)

It's really fun to watch them dash to their preys, isn't it?

  • 2 weeks later...
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Nice baby assassin, I'm glad you got an offspring from the wild caught ones. Good job!

Thank you :)

Seems that I'll be able to establish a captive bred culture of this species soon cause all my adults are doing great and I saw 2 more nymphs hatching out from egg capsules :)

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