Garden predators

We are getting fabulous harvests from our vege patch, with special thanks to our patrollers. We have numerous spiders, wasps and now I spotted an assassin bug!

Unidentified spider on south facing wall

St Andrew's Cross spider with one grasshopper already wrapped and another just caught.

Part of our chooks laying mash is sorghum seeds and we've had a few plants spring up from chook compost. The maturing seeds provide great camoflage for an Assassin Bug, Pristhesancus plagipennis (ID source, OzAnimals). I will be interested to see if this nymph survives to adulthood.

Assassin bug nymph