Bug ID please?

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max100 Pearland, TX Aug 15, 2010

Hello,

I'm in Pearland, Texas. A few weeks ago these bugs began appearing in my garden. They're everywhere now and they seem to particularly like my jazmins and bouganvillas. Are they friends or foe?
Thanks

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Sheila_FW Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Aug 15, 2010

A bit blurry but pretty sure it is one of the assassin bugs....maybe this one?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/11692/
Friend or foe is up for debate. They eat bugs that are on your plants mainly. But in my case, since I raise caterpillars of the butterflies; they aren't allowed. I don't use sprays because of the danger of killing the good with the bad; so I thump them into soapy water.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Aug 15, 2010

This looks like Zelus longipes (Hemiptera/Heteroptera: Reduviidae), known as the milkweed assassin bug - see http://tinyurl.com/23w4qnw for an image.

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