Giant Water Bug (Lethocerus americanus)
Description:
At up to 4 inches in length, Giant Water Bugs are the largest true bugs in North America. They possess a flat, ...
Giant Water Bugs are keen to devour anything living of reasonable size, including tadpoles, small fish and other insects, including its own kind.
Like all giant water bugs, this species has flattened hind legs and a wide, flat body -- adaptations for swimming underwater. When it needs to breathe, it rises to the surface, where it sticks out breathing tubes for air.
A Giant Water Bug Specimen
A gilled leech beside the nostril of a Numbfish
A Girdled Parma at Broughton Island
A Girdled Pipefish at Fly Point
A Glover's Anglerfish under Port Hughes Pier
A Goblin Shark in the tank area ...
Larvae are eaten by predatory insects- predaceous diving beetles, their larvae, water boatman, dragonfly nymphs, water scorpions and giant water bugs- other Ambystoma larvae, as well as turtles (Kenney and Burne 2000).
Giant Water Bug
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Diet: The Pacific Treefrog eats a wide variety of arthopods. Predators of pacific treefrogs around ponds include predaceous diving beetles, giant water bugs, bluegill sunfish, and garter snakes.
The giant water bugs (family Belostomatidae), with wide, flat bodies and grasping forelegs, are the world's largest bugs and among the largest of the insects. Members of some North American species grow 2 in.
 See also: Water Bug, Water Boa, Backswimmer, Beetle, Water Strider
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