Assassin Bug - Reduvius personatus

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Assassin Bug     Reduvius personatus
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Capel Road garden, 11 July 2008
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This bug, covered in what looked like dust, was in my garden in 2008.

It was only when I identified the species as an Assassin Bug from a photograph of another in 2014, that I realised what the original one was.

Personatus means "masked", as the insects sometimes disguise them selves to hunt!