Photo Feature
Assassin In Action
An assassin bug transports its kill, a bee, through post-monsoon shrubs in Puducherry. Over 7,000 assassin bug species are known to science and are so called for their strange predatory habit of sucking their insect prey dry using hardened mouthparts called rostrum. This done, they attach the dry corpses to their backs to mask their scent and for use as camouflage. Some can inflict painful bites on humans and other vertebrates and could transmit diseases too.
Photo: Amit Roy