Passion Vine Bug #1
by Danté Fenolio
Title
Passion Vine Bug #1
Artist
Danté Fenolio
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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This colorful Passion Vine Bug, a reduviid in the genus Anisoscelis, is cleaning its proboscis. Reduviids, or assassin bugs or kissing bugs are predatory insects that have a proboscis, like a mosquito. They use their proboscis primarily to suck the juices out of other insects. Several species of reduviid is responsible for transmitting Chagas Disease (caused by Trypanosoma cruzi) in South America.
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June 12th, 2013
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