Here in coastal Texas, if you step outside into your garden or flower bed, you may find an unusual looking critter known as an assassin bug. When I visited the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory’s native ...

The insect realm is rife with creepy-crawlies, be they smelly stink bugs, sneaky weevils, or simply slimy cockroaches. Yet certain bugs are capable of wreaking havoc in the garden, destroying harvests ...

Wheel bugs are unassuming until they strike. They spend most of their time hiding, using leafy plants as cover. Their markings provide camouflage, which they use to great effect. That’s probably a ...

With an appearance only a mother could love, wheel bugs also are called assassin bugs. They look to me like miniature dinosaurs or some other prehistoric creature that are found fossilized in rocks 50 ...