giant water bug

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giant water bug - large water bug with piercing and sucking mouthparts; feeds on young fishes

water bug - a true bug: large aquatic bug adapted to living in or on the surface of water

Belostomatidae, family Belostomatidae - water bugs

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He'll also eat a giant water bug known as a toe-biter and intestines of a seal.

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At two inches or more, the giant water bug must seem like an elephant to the other circus bugs.

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(2017) Battle of giants: Predation on giant tadpole of Pseudis platensis (Anura: Hylidae) by a giant water bug (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae).

DEPREDACION POR LARVA DE ESCARABAJO DE AGUA (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE) Y CANIBALISMO EN LITHOBATES BERLANDIERI (ANURA: RANIDAE) EN HUATUSCO, VERACRUZ, MEXICO

We then describe a newly-documented southeastern Tennessee population of the giant water bug, Belostoma lutarium (Stal), that is ideal for addressing timely questions related to parental care, sexual selection, and life history.

The giant water bug, Belostoma lutarium (Stal): an ideal system for studies of ecology, evolution, and behavior

In the early afternoon of 8 April 2009, we observed a giant water bug, Abedus herberti (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae), crawling along a dry stream reach in High Creek, Galiuro Mountains, Arizona (UTM 12S 569134, 3603989; elevation of 622 m).

Overland dispersal and drought-escape behavior in a flightless aquatic insect, Abedus herberti (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae)

And her Khon Kaen colleagues have just developed new rearing techniques for farming grasshoppers and the giant water bug (a Thai favorite).

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Deep inside the canyon are specialized habitat niches where singular species thrive--like a docile rattlesnake that's colored pinkish to match the canyon's rocks, and a giant water bug that senses the coming flash floods in the canyon's tributaries and climbs out of its streams until the floodwaters pass.

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Male brooding behavior of the giant water bug Lethocerus deyrollei Vuillefroy (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae).

Successful hatching from eggs carried by females and naturally removed from incubant males in Belostoma spp. water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)

The American giant water bug paralyses its prey then sucks the juices from its body - leaving a life-like shell.

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Earlier in the day, the children rode on their dads' backs near the Park House residence in an effort to mimic the giant water bug, who totes his offspring on his back, Hartmann said.

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One of my favorite insects found in ponds is the "electric light bug," also known as the "water-scorpion" or the "toe-biter." These common names refer to the giant water bug (not a beetle).