Ambush Bug
Notes: Called ambush bugs after their habit of lying in wait for prey, relying on their superb camouflage. Armed with raptorial forelegs, ambush bugs routinely capture prey ten or more times their own size, including bees. They are a subgroup within the assassin bugs.
Distribution: Ambush bugs can be found in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions all over the world, excluding Australia and New Zealand.
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Ambush bugs are predators of other insects and occasionally spiders. They lie in wait and hunt by ambush, capturing prey that comes within range, and injecting a paralyzing saliva through their piercing mouth. Like that xenomorph on Alien.
Ambush bugs may forage among leaves, but most commonly wait among flowers for passing flies, bees and wasps.
