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What kind of bug is this? #6619437
09/18/19 06:52 AM
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On the back screen door the other morning...darn near 2" long
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Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619439
09/18/19 07:05 AM
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Looks like a stink bug.

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619440
09/18/19 07:07 AM
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ugly whatever it is.









Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619441
09/18/19 07:08 AM
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It appears to be an assassin bug, it isn't real clear for me to see.

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619447
09/18/19 07:24 AM
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Bob, I just googled assassin bug. You are correct, thank you.
Here's a clearer pic off internet-
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Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619451
09/18/19 07:28 AM
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Looks like what this impressionable young Airman envisioned infesting the unspeakable areas of ladies of the night after being lectured by our NCOIC the week we arrived at Biggs Field on Fort Bliss just across from Juarez in 1971.

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619453
09/18/19 07:30 AM
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Here's a video of Assassin bug...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmV6TjVNZGM

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619460
09/18/19 07:41 AM
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A type of assassin bug, specifically a wheel bug. Very poisonous and very painful. My wife's uncle was bit by one once on the ankle and it rotted his flesh to the bone almost, and he had to be on IV antibiotics. Nasty stuff.

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619491
09/18/19 08:31 AM
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That's a big bug


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Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619492
09/18/19 08:33 AM
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Wheel bugs aren't poisonous. I've heard the bite/sting is excruciating, but not poisonous.

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Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: M.Magis] #6619507
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Originally Posted by M.Magis
Wheel bugs aren't poisonous. I've heard the bite/sting is excruciating, but not poisonous.


I think you're right. Poisonous isn't correct, they wouldn't have given my wife's uncle antibiotics for poison, that wouldn't make sense. Toxic maybe? Full of nasty germs? Not poison though.

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619512
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Found this info on wheel bugs. It says the bite is more painful than that of a wasp or hornet, and that it can take 2 weeks to heal, but that most infections are a secondary issue, not caused by the initial bite


.wheel bugs

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6619777
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They also spread disease,specifically Chagas disease.
Chagas is rampant in central America and mexico,and many people from there are infected.
It is becoming a problem in the USA with the mass migration of people from central America to the USA,particularly in urban areas.


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Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6620096
09/18/19 10:59 PM
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I'll bet the irritant they inject makes their prey hold still so that they can more easily suck the stuffing out of them.

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Boco] #6620305
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Originally Posted by Boco
They also spread disease,specifically Chagas disease.
Chagas is rampant in central America and mexico,and many people from there are infected.
It is becoming a problem in the USA with the mass migration of people from central America to the USA,particularly in urban areas.


This is a Wheel Bug not a "Triatomine bug" that can carry the parasite of "Chagas disease"

These bugs have something in common with divoriced wives............Once bite...twice shy

Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6620349
09/19/19 11:29 AM
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To me it appears to be a pine beatle I've had a few around the place they don't survive very long after I see them .


Re: What kind of bug is this? [Re: Hern] #6620362
09/19/19 11:40 AM
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Just KILL it … what it might be and what it is … is unimportant, if it might be poisonous.

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