P.S. sorry for the looooong chart, but i was too lazy to just type it all down. Sorry...
The Assassin bug's Ecosystem is HUGE compared to other insects such as a butterfly because the Assassin bug feeds on almost every insects, animals, birds and even human's blood. Assassin bugs or "True Bugs", feed on an Invertebrate and also a Vertebrate. The most common type of Assassin bug is called the Reduviids. Reduviids come in many sizes from just a few millimeters to over three centimeters. Assassin bugs when threatened uses its needle-like mouthpart to inject toxins that paralyzes the one that threatens the bug. Kissing bugs (Triatoma spp. and Paratriatoma spp. (also an Assassin bug) sucks blood from the victim's face, or in some cases, the lips!!!!!! The Assassin bug, like every other living thing on this Earth, comes from it's mother. The Assassin bug first starts out as a tiny nymph. Then it finds a creature that is a VERTEBRATE to suck its blood. Here's a video of a Assassin bug nymph sucking a bat's blood. Enjoy.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmV6TjVNZGM
Now that was cool to watch, wasn't it? The Biotic (also known as living) parts of the Assassin bug's Ecosystem are the following things:
Bat, Spiders, Insects, Mammals, plants, birds, fish, insect-eating animals, other Assassin bugs, and reptiles.
The Abiotic (also known as non-living) parts of the Assassin bug's ecosystem are the following things:
sand, dirt, water, stones/boulders, sunlight, and dead corpses.
The adaptations of the Assassin bug
The adaptations of the Assassin bug are clearly shown in the video: first of all, the newly hatched nymph uses its legs to climb a cave so that it can find a nearby bat to feed on. The Assassin bug's saliva is filled with toxins to paralyze its prey. The Assassin bug has sticky hairs all over their legs, enabling them to grab onto their prey. One type of Assassin bug uses a termite corpse to attract live termites, then pounces like a cougar on the unsuspecting insect and eats the termite. Some Assassin bugs that live in Southeast Asia covers their legs with tree sap the uses it to attract bees. See how Assassin bugs are smart? Assassin bugs are almost anywhere on this earth, but most commonly found in the tropical biomes. The places Assassin bugs are commonly found are the following places: South America, North America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Europe. Assassin bugs that live in deserts sometimes cool themselves in burrows, (which they dug up) while the intense heat that comes from the Sun doesn't bother the bugs at all, but mainly, they roam around the area, finding some insects or other animals to suck their blood up.
Here is a rather UGLY looking Reduviid Assassin Bug...
Assassin bug's Ecosystem & Adaptations
By Chester Kim
Note: I do not own wikispaces and all the other sources found below.Brief Information:
Latreille, 1807
Bactrodinae
Centrocnemidinae
Cetherinae
Chryxinae
Ectrichodiinae
Elasmodeminae
Emesinae
Hammacerinae
Harpactorinae
Holoptilinae
Manangocorinae
Peiratinae
Phimophorinae
Phymatinae
Physoderinae
Pseudocetherinae
Reduviinae
Saicinae
Salyavatinae
Sphaeridopinae
Stenopodainae
Triatominae
Tribelocephalinae
Vesciinae
Visayanocorinae
P.S. sorry for the looooong chart, but i was too lazy to just type it all down. Sorry...
The Assassin bug's Ecosystem is HUGE compared to other insects such as a butterfly because the Assassin bug feeds on almost every insects, animals, birds and even human's blood. Assassin bugs or "True Bugs", feed on an Invertebrate and also a Vertebrate. The most common type of Assassin bug is called the Reduviids. Reduviids come in many sizes from just a few millimeters to over three centimeters. Assassin bugs when threatened uses its needle-like mouthpart to inject toxins that paralyzes the one that threatens the bug. Kissing bugs (Triatoma spp. and Paratriatoma spp. (also an Assassin bug) sucks blood from the victim's face, or in some cases, the lips!!!!!!
The Assassin bug, like every other living thing on this Earth, comes from it's mother. The Assassin bug first starts out as a tiny nymph. Then it finds a creature that is a VERTEBRATE to suck its blood. Here's a video of a Assassin bug nymph sucking a bat's blood. Enjoy.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmV6TjVNZGM
Now that was cool to watch, wasn't it? The Biotic (also known as living) parts of the Assassin bug's Ecosystem are the following things:
Bat, Spiders, Insects, Mammals, plants, birds, fish, insect-eating animals, other Assassin bugs, and reptiles.The Abiotic (also known as non-living) parts of the Assassin bug's ecosystem are the following things:
sand, dirt, water, stones/boulders, sunlight, and dead corpses.The adaptations of the Assassin bug
The adaptations of the Assassin bug are clearly shown in the video: first of all, the newly hatched nymph uses its legs to climb a cave so that it can find a nearby bat to feed on. The Assassin bug's saliva is filled with toxins to paralyze its prey. The Assassin bug has sticky hairs all over their legs, enabling them to grab onto their prey. One type of Assassin bug uses a termite corpse to attract live termites, then pounces like a cougar on the unsuspecting insect and eats the termite. Some Assassin bugs that live in Southeast Asia covers their legs with tree sap the uses it to attract bees. See how Assassin bugs are smart? Assassin bugs are almost anywhere on this earth, but most commonly found in the tropical biomes. The places Assassin bugs are commonly found are the following places:
South America, North America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Europe.
Assassin bugs that live in deserts sometimes cool themselves in burrows, (which they dug up) while the intense heat that comes from the Sun doesn't bother the bugs at all, but mainly, they roam around the area, finding some insects or other animals to suck their blood up.
Here is a rather UGLY looking Reduviid Assassin Bug...
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduviidae
http://www.desertusa.com/insects/assassin-bug.html
http://insects.about.com/od/truebugs/p/assassinbugs.htm
http://www.orkin.com/other/kissing-bugs/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Assassin_bug_aug08_02.jpg