Garden Pests and Diseases: Good Bug or Bad?, 1 by dovey

dovey wrote:
Mornin' Debi and Night Bloom,
As far as we could see there was no damage what-so-ever to the rose.
I was hoping it was after the aphids and I did a Google search for "aphid predator"

I'm thinking wishing and hoping and... thinking and praying... planning and dreaming (sorry I think I was channeling Dionne Warwick there for a minute) it's some kind of Assassin Bug.
Looks a lot like this photo
http://www.origins.tv/entomology/bugs/150/assassinbug1010.jp...

Not a skiddish bug at all. Although, it wasn't fond of M and his camera and eventually flew away.

We don't spray chemicals, so if it ended up a bad bug M would don his shining armor and squish'm for me.