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Giant Water Bug

Photo by ttlaurent47
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Field Notes

Description:

Giant Waterbug

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
Scott Frazier
Hello. I moved this to the "category" Arthropods for you. This group contains insects, spider, crustaceans and so on. It looks like one of the species of the genus Lethocerus ("Lethocerus sp."). See http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/bugs/giant_water_bugs.htm
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PublishedJune 1, 2014

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