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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)

Species Lethocerus americanus - Giant Water Bug


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Range map for Giant Water Bug
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JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Alberta     5 13   
British Columbia    13 3411 
California      141   
Connecticut   1        
Idaho     1  1   
Indiana          6 
Iowa  1 1   32  
Kentucky         3  
Maine    3  911  
Manitoba       1    
Maryland      3 3   
Massachusetts   5372 42  
Michigan  2    1    
Minnesota       241  
Montana       23   
Nebraska     2 2 2  
New Brunswick   2 1122   
New Hampshire    1    1  
New Jersey      1  1  
New York   252   12 
Newfoundland/Labrador     1      
North Dakota   3        
Nova Scotia       1    
Ohio  111       
Ontario   2   11   
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Oregon     3 41   
Pennsylvania  5313      
Quebec   11  45   
Rhode Island   2  2     
Saskatchewan       32   
Utah     1 2    
Vermont   1        
Washington   321 242  
Wisconsin   5 31     
Wyoming   11       

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