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Water Stick

Ranatra

Photo by ica-ecology54
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Stream

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
ForestDragon
Neat find! This looks like a Water Scorpion, a type of aquatic, predatory insect. Yours most resembles one from Genus Ranatra. Here is a link to the BugGuide page for that genus. Perhaps you can find a match for the species there: http://bugguide.net/node/view/3157/bgpage Hope this helps!

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A1 Ecology Fall 2014
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PublishedOctober 14, 2014

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