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Giant Water Bug

Lethocerus americanus

Photo by Flex.Cook
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Field Notes

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Notes:

At first it appeared dead, but when I went to collect it moved quickly. The first glance it appeared to be a cockroach, but getting closer to it I realized it was something totally different. It was found by a wet culvert in a ditch outside of Calgary.

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Belostomatidae

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PublishedSeptember 7, 2013

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