A new generation of assassins
This weekend, while sitting on my back porch between thunderstorms, I noticed a small fuzzy patch of something on one of the deck chairs. From a distance, I thought it might be a small patch of lichen; this wouldn’t be odd, as the chairs are fairly speckled with various small lichens. But as I got closer, part of my potential lichen started to move! What I had found was a cluster of newly hatched spiny assassin bugs (Sinea spinipes). Although…