Me too. First I thought of a crab spider, they can have these colors and catch insects on flowers, but the shape tells me it is not a spider.
I have never seen anything before.
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fchristant
Posted 9 months ago, modified 9 months ago
I think this earlier photo is the same bug:
It looks like it has six legs. I've been searching for 20 minutes but still no match. This one is challenging. It has some similarities with a soldier beetle, don't you think?
Indeed the same one. I have also been searching for that time or so. I had given up already but searched again after the hint by Blackdiamond, but that didn't lead to anything.
BUT some further searching led me to a similar looking bug which was an Hemiptera (real bug). After including that the google image search results got much better (without all the fashion images and volkswagon beetle cars) and I found it!
It is the Red Assassin bug (Rhynocoris iracundus).
All that searching, thinking it is very exotic, and then see it even has a dutch wiki page :( .
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I have never seen anything before.
It looks like it has six legs. I've been searching for 20 minutes but still no match. This one is challenging. It has some similarities with a soldier beetle, don't you think?
BUT some further searching led me to a similar looking bug which was an Hemiptera (real bug). After including that the google image search results got much better (without all the fashion images and volkswagon beetle cars) and I found it!
It is the Red Assassin bug (Rhynocoris iracundus).
All that searching, thinking it is very exotic, and then see it even has a dutch wiki page :( .