Talk:Reduviidae

"plant killing": aphids?

"...breed them as pets and for plant killing." If I could parse this, I'd fix it myself. Can you do it?--Wetman (talk) 07:13, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

What do they eat?

Could someone add what type and size of prey they eat? UNIT A4B1 (talk) 18:26, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Your mom. They eat your mother just like the rest of us. Stop asking. 99.24.171.120 (talk) 01:42, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Gminatus australis with Beetle.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Gminatus australis with Beetle.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on November 19, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-11-19. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 00:47, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A species of assassin bug (Gminatus australis shown) feeding on a beetle. Assassin bugs use their long rostrum to inject a lethal saliva that liquefies the insides of the prey, which are then sucked out. The most distinctive feature of the assassin bug family is that the tip of the rostrum fits into a groove in the prosternum, where it is rasped against ridges there to produce sound, a tactic often used to intimidate predators.Photo: JJ Harrison

Intro needs work

hey the intro section to this article is p ridiculous. spelling/grammar are atrocious and i don't understand what it's trying to say--thus i also don't know how to correct it

Quowel (talk) 19:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Actually, that intro looks like vandalism. The sexual conotations of puxxy, dikens, etc. do not appear authentic and should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.166.76.15 (talk) 21:18, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

It is still terrible - what does this mean "They can be perceived as slightly unusual,[citation needed] but they are very common among the Hemiptera because almost all are terrestrial ambush predators (most other predatory Hemiptera are aquatic)." --MATThematical (talk) 12:36, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Image selection

The article itself states that: "[Reduviidae] is a large, cosmopolitan family" - and yet all of the pictures on the article seem to be of more exotic specimens. I think it would be good to include at least one picture of a very typical mundane species that people may be more familiar with. As I am commenting on the English page perhaps an American or Western European variety?

You make a valid point. Some people dont know the pictures are that species,therefore they may get confused or angry. Thank you for your time on this topic. Insect Geek (talk) 02:23, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

History???

I know it talked about its past and stuff,but it didnt talk about were it originated from,did it come from the jurrasic,turrasic,you get what im saying. In truth,the species originated from the Middle Jurassic. It needs more historical details. Insect Geek (talk) 02:19, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Expert needed to get this

Sad that so much expert terminology is used here that a regular reader hardly has a chance to learn anything about the bug. That's not what an encyclopedia is for. SergeWoodzing (talk) 18:10, 29 March 2024 (UTC)