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big bug back side - Lethocerus
Copyright © 2007 Randy Jacobs

big bug back side - Lethocerus
Cylinder, Iowa, USA
July 29, 2007
Size: 2.5 inches
This is the bottom of the big bug. The body has a triangled wedge shape down the undersideof the body
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Contributed by Randy Jacobs on 29 July, 2007 - 8:30am
Last updated 14 August, 2007 - 5:38pm

That is a giant water bug. I
That is a giant water bug.
If i was the one who had taken this one, i would readily ID it as Lethocerus americanus, since it's the only species of the Bellostomatidae familly here in Québec, but you may well have more species, wich i'm unfamilliar with, in Iowa.
Impressive are'nt they?!? :)
… Dany Brown, 29 July, 2007 - 7:55pm login or register to post comments

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