The Giraffe assassin bug - A spider's worst nightmare

If you ask me, the giraffe assassin bug gets a little too cozy with spiders for comfort. But then again, when you’re a tiny predator with a towering neck and a dagger for a mouth—living in Australia, no less—you’re probably not losing sleep over a few creepy crawlies

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Here's a few scientific articles where you can learn more about this not-so adorable, but very cool bug:

• Biology of Stenolemus giraffa (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a web invading, araneophagic assassin bug from Australia, by F.G. Soley, R.R. Jackson & P.W. Taylor

• Fine-scale analysis of an assassin bug's behaviour: predatory strategies to bypass the sensory systems of prey, by F.G. Soley

• Biology and life history of the araneophagic assassin bug Stenolemus bituberus including a morphometric analysis of the instars (Heteroptera, Reduviidae), by A.E. Wignall & P.W. Taylor

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