Oct 032014
I set out down Piney Woods Church Road at mid-afternoon today, after the early morning rain but well before the promised cold front passed through. A short way down the road, I saw this assassin bug nymph (Zelus luridus) perched on a muscadine leaf. I suspected it was an assassin bug after observing its impressive shnozz (to use the complicated scientific term) which betokened a life to be spent sucking the vital fluids out of other insects.
