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Photo by Anne
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KeithRoragen
Your first image looks like a dragonfly nymph. The second is a Giant Water Bug, another of the True Bugs capable of inflicting a painful bite. The female Giant water Bug lays eggs on the back of the male and the male tends to them until they hatch, so yours is a male.

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