It is unlikely Sun Tzu had insects in mind when he made this claim in his famous work, The Art of War, but this sentiment holds true in the most brutal manifestations of evolutionary battle. At first glance, you might have guessed this was an ant, but Pilophorus juniperi is in the family Miridae and in the order Hemiptera. Hence its specific epithet juniperi, it is commonly associated with native and ornamentally-planted Juniperus virginiana (Eastern redcedar). However, unlike many other mirids, this is not an exclusively phytophagous species, which is where things get interesting.
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