One of three species of assassin bug on-display in one of the rooms in the Hinton House. This species is a specialist predator upon millipedes, which are presumably sourced from the huge freely-breeding colonies elsewhere in the collection.
Fascinating. But what do you mean by huge freely-breeding colonies?
Freely means?
And how do they feed a large colony of them? They would need correspondingly large quantities of millipedes for breeding, right?
By freely-breeding, I am referring to the millipedes, many of which have large multi-generational colonies in the millipede room. There seemed to be some remains of younger giant millipedes in the assassin bug enclosure, so I am assuming that they remove a small number of the offspring for the purposes of feeding the assassins.
Sorry I was unclear on that - there isn't, as far as I am aware, a large colony of millipede assassin bugs. On yesterday's visit, I only saw this single animal (although there could well have been some more hiding).
