Assassin Bug

One thing I had been hoping to see in Colombia is an assassin bug. I had seen this video before leaving the US. It's about wheel bugs, which are closely related to assassin bugs.

In the last two months I had seen a lot of hemipterans, but upon inspecting their mouth parts I had found that they all lacked the rostrum (syringe-like beak) of the assassin bug– until today. I was standing on the platform of a metro station taking photos through a window, when one suddenly lighted on the glass in front of my very eyes!

Here you can see the bug's rostrum.

And here the rest of its body is in focus. Next I want to see one of these bugs carry out an assassination.