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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Aquatic Bugs (Nepomorpha) » Nepoidea » Giant Water Bugs (Belostomatidae) » Belostomatinae » Belostoma
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giant water bug - Belostoma
Copyright © 2010 Molly Jacobson

giant water bug - Belostoma
Great Brook Farm State Park, Carlisle, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 30, 2010
They love to eat dragonfly naiads... Has some sort of prey item in its grasp, can't tell quite what it is.

Note red eyes.
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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 1 July, 2010 - 5:51pm
Last updated 5 August, 2012 - 1:50pm

Moved
Moved from Giant Water Bugs.
… David J. Ferguson, 5 August, 2012 - 1:50pm login or register to post comments

Got to be Genus Belostoma -
proportions are all wrong for Lethocerus.
… Arlo Pelegrin, 20 July, 2011 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

A nymph
not sure whether further IDable.
… Tim Loh, 22 July, 2010 - 12:24pm login or register to post comments

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