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JCalhoun Saraland, AL(Zone 8b) Feb 23, 2011

What are these called? I have been seing them for a couple years now and have no idea what they are.

It's a long bright red body with white specks and black legs and antennae. Overall length of the bug is about half an inch.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Feb 28, 2011

This is a nymph of an assassin bug (Hemiptera/Heteroptera: Reduviidae), they are general predators on other small arthropods and thus usually considered beneficial.

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JCalhoun Saraland, AL(Zone 8b) Feb 28, 2011

Thanks.

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