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Post by mecano04 on Jul 24, 2023 9:44:38 GMT
I do believe I solved the mystery of this insect. Yet another one of these buggers invaded my man cave, so I took a picture of it and put it on iNaturalist as mecano04 suggested. The match I came up with is a bug known as the Masked Hunter. According to Wikipedia these things do deliver a painful sting like a bee. Anyway, I'm waiting for somebody on iNaturalist to confirm this but I'm pretty sure this is the Masked Hunter. Here's the picture of it on my carpet: I just cropped your picture and used it to get the suggestion and the Masked hunter is what came up too. It's the only one with a perfect color match among the 5 suggestions I got, without being able to define a location.
Seems like some kind of assassin bug who got their names from the fact they kill other insects. They sting, they inject some sort of paralyzing agent and then they suck out the insides of their victim.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 24, 2023 17:16:08 GMT
I do believe I solved the mystery of this insect. Yet another one of these buggers invaded my man cave, so I took a picture of it and put it on iNaturalist as mecano04 suggested. The match I came up with is a bug known as the Masked Hunter. According to Wikipedia these things do deliver a painful sting like a bee. Anyway, I'm waiting for somebody on iNaturalist to confirm this but I'm pretty sure this is the Masked Hunter. Here's the picture of it on my carpet: I just cropped your picture and used it to get the suggestion and the Masked hunter is what came up too. It's the only one with a perfect color match among the 5 suggestions I got, without being able to define a location.
Seems like some kind of assassin bug who got their names from the fact they kill other insects. They sting, they inject some sort of paralyzing agent and then they suck out the insides of their victim.
Some interesting facts in that link. I'm glad these things aren't sociable insects and it seems they usually avoid humans altogether.
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Post by 99999 on Jul 24, 2023 20:26:57 GMT
mecano04, Captain Spencer, Interesting. The reason why I had suggested to mail the insect to an Entomologist, is that they may have to place the insect under a microscope for a positive ID.
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