LOL! 🤣👍We wanted to capture just such a moment on film, but no one was hungry this time. Would like to do a feeding video with these guys at some point! 😃
I once hab a similar species and got sprayed in my eye while I was feeding them...it was super painful for a couple hours! You should be really careful with these guys
Wow...thanks 4 the Heads Up. Mine literally walks on my hand. As a nymph...thought it was a Mantis. But reaseaching it ........wont be doing that again!
@@reneesmith3953 Hahah, yeah there's a reason you shouldn't really handle any inverts unless you know for a fact what they are, I remember seeing someone holding a Brazilian wandering spider on an insect identification subreddit lol, one of the most dangerous being on the planet and the guy just thought he'd pick it up. Still, it's good to know both can be tame and calm, I guess.. If it didn't stab you yet, it probably doesn't mind you, but yeah not really worth it to see if he changes his mind or not as an adult..
Heartworm and Chagas disease are not the same thing, but as far as I can tell, this species does not carry Chagas..only certain species of assassin bugs in the Americas do.
You're Half Correct "Heartworms and Chagas are not the same thing", Chagas was the name of the scientist that discovered the assassin beetle. The larva is transferred to humans threw your eyes by way of the beetles feces as it sucks your tears when you sleep. Telling sign is your eye swelling up or even closed.The larva then travels threw your blood stream to your heart where they attach themselves and grow into worms. Heartworms is the stage of the beetle life, and Chagas is the name a person. So it is said that if you are infected by an assassin beetle then you have ''Chagas'',(Heartworms).I live in South Texas and kill them on my front porch every night, and someone in my life has tested positive for "Chagas".
Dr.Bright That is a good way to describe them...although not the kind of cute that makes you want to boop them on the nose. The kind of cute that makes you want to keep a safe distance and admire it from the other side of a pane of glass. Or, to quote Cassie in Antman, “He’s so ugly! I LOVE him!”
I may not own or know much about ABs except they have cousins that wear the bodies of their victims like leatherface or cruella, I think the ABs that can fly do so for warding away predators or doing a swift silent Assassins Creed dive on prey.
I would get these guys *IF* they couldn’t climb up smooth surfaces or fly. I would line breed them so they eventually lose that ability to climb well. But that would take many years and many generations of breeding.
I keep these I also keep the wheel bug, the largest north american species of assassin bug. It's about the size of the white spotted assassins. Not quite as big as the horrids. I would say they are an even better pet than the horrid kings. They live communally too, which isn't the case for many native species. I'm not sure which looks cooler... The wheel bugs are "cute" I guess, lot of fluffy grey hair (setea) and the nymphs are adorable.... P. Horrida looks tough and "mean" (though I see the beauty in them both, aesthetically the wheel bug is a very different. They're slow, calm. Very even tempered, never had a bite.(I feel like I'm like the ambassador for the wheel bugs.) An amazing experience raising these animals. I have a few clips of them uploaded on here, couple of seconds long. Also Sinea diadema another species of reduviidae that's a little harder to keep because those must be kept individually. Time consuming. Very attractive bug as well, though quite smaller.
Aquarimax Pets thank you. I actually just boiled them for about 6 minutes on the stove. Does that work as well? I know you have to let them dry but hopefully that got rid of most of the harmful bacteria.
I got sprayed in the mouth one landed on my drink next to my bed in the middle of the nite I rolled over and grabbed my glass and I raised it my mouth omg what a smell what a taste I flip on the lite and the bug.. the next 30-45 min was the worst taste on my hands and the cup I has to throw out
William Barbour I am not sure, but I would tend to avoid it, just to prevent hybridization in the case of closely related species, not to mention the fact that they might eat other species, since they will even eat their own species if they get too hungry.
There were quite a few inaccuracies in this video, but they were all harmless technicalities. Great guide! I'm never planning on keeping these - they are too unpleasant for my taste. The closest I'd consider would be water striders, because of their cool surface-tension manipulation and elegance.
I don’t think I could get away with keeping these either...my wife wouldn’t want them in the house. It was fun to encounter them though...from a safe distance. 😁👍
Water striders are also cool! I hoped you had a video of your own on them that I could watch. I also couldn't find a more accurate video on the assassin bugs. Could you send the link to me?
Kenny That is always an issue to consider. Permits where applicable and careful attention to regulations for housing and disposal of substrate are key in preventing such issues.
@@Aquarimax I'm mostly hopeful that any breeders think about who they are selling this kind of animal to (and where that person lives). That would be the first line of defense. If everyone was as responsible as you (and many others like you) I wouldn't have any concern.
The care in this video is completely off!! They need much more height!! They are an arboreal insect and moult hanging upside down.. And this species of assassin bug is only found in humid rainforest I heard. They should not be kept that dry. (other types of assassin bug can, but its not recommended with this species)
Ray has been producing generations of healthy horrid kings for a long time now. He must be doing something right. I think one of his main points in the video is that this is a very adaptable species from a variety of habitats.
@@Aquarimax In this setup I don't see anywhere any of them would be able to moult into an adult. They might be able to reproduce, but does that mean they are thriving?? The care Ray gives to his animals just seems so effortless.
I would prefer to use cork bark but egg flats work well. None of them are deformed from mismolts. I do like having taller egg flats but took them out for the video. There are springtails and isopods in the substrate so it’s moist deeper down
@@Aquarimax Yes! Chupança is also a common name. There are actually quite a few different names for them, from very distinct regions. I guess no one here would like to keep them as pets tho, Triatoma Infestans (the most common one here) is very well known for carying the Tripanossoma Cruzi protozoary, which causes the Chagas disease.
They’re Hemiptera...Hymenoptera is the order of wasps, bees, and ants which this is not. And while Hemiptera does mean half-wing, many of them can still fly, including most assassin bugs Honestly I’d approach a lot of the information presented in this video that isn’t specifically pertaining to care with a grain of salt. Do your own research.
Prime135 1 Yes, that is why I added the text for ‘Hemiptera’ to correct the slip of the tongue. At least some of the assassin bugs native to my area, as well as many other Hemiptera can fly, that is true.
I have an all black assassin bug in my freezer. It bit me when I snagged it off my fiance with a tissue, and it made me super sick for a few hours. I had a high fever and was sweating like no other. Also felt like I was going to throw up. Now I see them in my house or outside my house I kill them. I would rather be stung in the eye lid by a big ol hornet again.