Brightly colored killer. The Plains Bee Assassin bug was not on my radar for this outing so I was surprised to see a freshly molted adult that was HIGHLIGHTER RED sitting on a pice of cover I was about to flip for snakes. These assassin bugs lie in ambush generally around flowering plants for pollinators such as bees to move in too close. Once in range, these insects pounce and inject their sharp rostrum into the animal’s body before releasing a slurry of digestive venom. Because of this feeding