User:Abhi112358/Western corsair

Diet:

The Western Corsair feeds on other smaller insects, and have adaptations to suck fluid from prey. Their diet includes caterpillars, larvae of leaf beetles and sawflies. They also feed on other true bugs and assassin bugs. These creatures also predatorily freed on bees, lacewings, lady beetles. They crave the blood of mammals, birds and cold blooded animals such as reptiles. (4)

Description and range:

When these wings collide into one, the yellow-orange dots form one larger dot in appearance. Their head's contain long bendy antennas. With closed wings, the side abdomen reveals a black and yellow checkered pattern. (1)

Effects of Getting Bitten:

The bite of a Western Corsair is quite painful and excruciating. Upon the initial bite, not much is felt due to the natural anesthetic the assassins injects into its victim. Sequentially, the bite gets itchier with the possibility of welts developing. The second bite may cause certain individual an anaphylactic reaction. In the worse case scenarios, the induvial bitten may develop a disease called Chagas. (3)

Life Stages:

Western Corsairs go through three life stages. After the Nymphal Stages, these bugs typically have one to two generations yearly.(4) Throughout their life cycles they are hungry for blood.

Nymphal Stages:

These assassins go through five different Nymphal Stages. At each stage, they have a weekly requirement of five times their weight in blood. These five stages conclude in about just a year,(2). In the last stage, they grow into adults with wings, without having to go through any intermediate pupal stages.(4) Their adulthood typically arrives in the warmer summer months.(3)