Need help on ID please

These guy was hanging out on my arm while I was taking some spider shots, I put him down on the grass and snapped some shots of him. I don't think I have ever seen a guy like this before can anyone help me with an ID.
Thanks,
Nan

Well Nan, I can'i id this thing but I'm glad he's not in my yard!
SteveB.

Good captures- I suspect it's an assassin bug of some type.
brian v.

Thank guys, I am going to keep looking and most likely going to have to invest in a better bug identification book mine is pretty old.

Hiya Nan,

Great shots, looks like it could be this Assassin Bug ' Acholla multispinosa '

found here http://bugguide.net/no​de/view/36171

Cheers for now
Mark

or could it be a squash bug?? im not sure 100% tho but that looks like one in my book......

Wow Bandit 1 that is my bug, great find and thanks for sharing! When I was researching the Assassin bugs earlier it freaked me out to think this guy was crawling around on me and that I was very lucky that he did not stab me with that beak. That could have really hurt and would have surely left a mark. After reading this nice little blurb:
Assassin bugs feed by external digestion, which means that they push their beak into their victims body and inject a very toxic, or poisonous, liquid that affects the nerves and liquifies the muscles and tissues of their prey. Most other insects that eat like this have two tubes in their beak; one for injecting the fluid and one for sucking in their food. But assassin bugs have only one large tube that does both jobs. This larger tube allows them to inject a larger amount of the toxic digestive fluid so that prey many times their size can be quickly overcome. Once the insides of the prey are turned into a liquid, the assassin bug uses its rostrum to suck out the liquified tissues in much the same way we use a straw to drink a milkshake!
On this website.

Nice find Nan. Lovely things aren't they.

MrEd wrote in post #3882644
or could it be a squash bug?? im not sure 100% tho but that looks like one in my book......

I don't think that it is a squash bug because of how the head on mine sticks out or protrudes from the rest of it's body. But thanks for the idea!

skylab wrote in post #3882686
Nice find Nan. Lovely things aren't they.

It is a really interesting looking guy, but it would have been all over for him if he would have tried to stab me with that beak of his.

nan3182 wrote in post #3882699
I don't think that it is a squash bug because of how the head on mine sticks out or protrudes from the rest of it's body. But thanks for the idea!

yeh lol i saw that after i posted, nevermind was just a shot in the dark so to speak..... still an ugly bug tho!!