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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) » Lethocerinae » Lethocerus » Giant Water Bug (Lethocerus americanus)
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giant water bug hiding up side down under a leaf. - Lethocerus americanus
Copyright © 2014 Jamie olsen

giant water bug hiding up side down under a leaf. - Lethocerus americanus
dresden, lincoln County, Maine, USA
May 10, 2014
Size: 1.75"
I caught this giant water bug on my front porch and placed him in our bug cage so that I could show him to my kids in the morning. Once I shut off the porch lights he grabbed this leaf and flipped over underneath it. It makes a pretty good hiding spot for the night. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Sorry about the angle but it was the only way I could take the picture.
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Contributed by Jamie olsen on 10 May, 2014 - 11:14pm
Last updated 22 March, 2017 - 4:17pm

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… Charley Eiseman, 13 August, 2014 - 7:37am login or register to post comments

I can't help with the behavior
but the giant water bug is Lethocerus americanus, and the dead cricket in the other photo is a female Gryllus veletis.

Interesting behavior. I'll be interested in what others have to say.
… metrioptera, 11 May, 2014 - 6:38am login or register to post comments

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