That is a crazy looking bug! I don't think I've ever seen one before. Glad he's a good guy!

Wow what a cool looking bug!!! I don't really know that much about assassin bugs yet, but that bug looks pretty awesome. He blends in so well with the foliage just like a little assassin should doesn't he? I will have to keep an eye out for any of those here.

I know, Sarah! it's kind of creepy looking to me... but I'm not a bug lover under any circumstances. I saw one and I was kind of turn the blind eye to him in hopes it is a good guy. And I was right! A month later and I saw couple of them on another rose bush. And I just read that they can bite you too! and it will be like a mosquito bite or bee bite, they also have some kind of venom like those...

He does look like an assassin to me now, Cori Ann lol, and he moves accordingly!

Yeah!

Now let him or her go through a few more stages and become a bigger bug with a massive appetite.

He looks like a mini praying mantis! Those eyes look evil hahaha! And here's to hoping you never have to discover what it's bite is like! Doesn't sound pleasant at all.

wow, stillanntn, I thought that was his last stage of life lol

They are cool. I have a lot of them here. They eat a ton of bad bugs. They do bite so beware, I've been bitten but it didn't hurt much compared to the stinging saddleback caterpillars anyways. lol. They aren't poison or anything to humans though not say like a black widow or scorpion sting but some people are a lot more sensitive and may also have an allergic reaction so looky but don't touchy.

They can be aggressive. They like to get on the mulberry fruits and kinda guard them from ants I guess they were eating the ants that came along but they also seemed to be maybe tasting the fruit or something. I was watching them last year when I was picking black mulberries they are weird.

We also get the orange assassins here as well. They like to get on orange flowers of the tropical milkweed or the orange cosmos so they kinda blend in, I guess.

Once I know who it is I'm getting more and more excited they just showed up from nowhere! I can't believe I have all this wildlife of insects in just a year of gardening! before it was all gravel and walls with couple of palm trees... Yay! :)

Oh my goodness SultyJ, I'm so glad we don't have insects like that here!

Assassin bugs are very scary looking bugs. I don't welcome them into my yard eventhough i know they are predators of pest insects. I wish they would go somewhere else and I have told them so. I have seen them attacked my ladybugs. :(