Gallery: The Recluse Who Hunts Assassins (the Insect Variety)
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To catch kissing bugs, Brown strings up a white sheet and illuminates it with an incandescent light bulb. He often finds kissing bugs crawling on the floor near it, drawn to the light.
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Brown holds a kissing bug in his bare hands. Scientist caution people who collect kissing bugs never to touch them with their bare hands.
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Brown keeps bug he catches in expired pill bottles in his freezer.
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Brown notes the location, time and date where each bug was found and slips it in the a pill bottle with the bug.
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Brown spends much of his time wandering his property.
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Brown climbs an eight-story tower he built besides his house for ham radio.
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Brown finds a kissing bug on the radio tower.
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Brown holds a "kissing bug" that he pulled out of a pill bottle in his freezer. Scientist caution people who collect kissing bugs never to touch them with their bare hands.
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Brown surveys his land. He lives on 153 acres in Lexington, Texas.
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Brown chooses to live a quiet, isolated life immersed in nature.
