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There's some catnip next to my chair on the rocks and the bees are still there sometimes when I'm sitting if it's not too late in the evening. I got a photo of bombus huntii but I saw bombus vagans too. Another masked hunter assassin bug was seen on the wall just a bit ago *points over there*. It was relocated to outdoors.

New predatory bug species discovered in Aussie wilderness uses tool to assassinate prey au.news.yahoo.com/new-predator

Gorareduvius gajarrangarnang, a new species of resin-using #AssassinBug from Australia, with notes on its behaviour taxonomyaustralia.org.au/ajt/p

"When they attack other invertebrates the sticky resin helps them grab them more readily... the #insect also appears to be coating its eggs in the substance... When the nymphs hatch, they have resin they can use for their first hunt"