True Bugs - Order: (Hymenoptera) . This insect order is fond of sucking things - whether it be plant juices or the blood of vertebrates this group really sucks.

How: they use use their piercing and sucking mouthparts to get the job done.

Buyers Beware: This makes some of them dangerous. Some, like the wheel bug pictured below, can give an extremely painful bite! Most are harmless.

Most members of the group are beneficial for their ability to balance the scales of ecologic systems, many keeping agricultural pests at bay