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  • I saw one in Montana once. Tried to catch it but it got away. Thank god that freak didn't bite me.

  • Quick somebody raid it.

  • all water bug are poison ? because i saw one in the pool and it touch my nipples

  • no, don't kill these things, just leave them alone. I saved one once from some mean kids, they can bite/sting tho.

  • I found a Giant Water Bug here in Maine several years ago. It was near the grocery store. I picked it up (bad idea) and took it back to my house. When I looked it up on the Internet I found out that it has a very painful bite, and is also called a Toe Biter. The thing was almost four inches long and about an inch wide, and thick bodied. It was a hefty bug. It was very slow moving (almost nonmoving). I put it outside the back door and later when I looked for it, it was gone. It did not bite me.

  • i found five yesterday

  • They will bite when you are in their element....slow moving water. A welt left like nothing else on body.  They eat anything they could overpower in the water. I kept two in a 20 gal tank for nearly a year. Always hungry and vicious, not to mention they are tremendous flyers as well.

  • Put it back outside.

  • this is a sign of a soon to be mojave wasteland

  • Ugh, I remember being stung/bitten by one when I was 7. One of the most painful things I've ever had happen to me.

  • FUCKING KILL THIS SLUT. FUCKING KILL IT. OH MY GOD. 

  • there all over the dealereship parking lot i work at lol

  • lol

    

  • Mirelurk! 

  • @LewkiC radroach ;)

  • they're fucking disgusting, I thoroughly enjoy killing them and if given the opportunity, slowly. they're ugly and deserve to die. i like banana spiders because they eat what i hate.

  • theres so many of those things at my job outside, asian people go by collecting them in bags to eat, they say it helps them lose weight idk, my co worker got stung by one his leg swole up for days lol heard they have venom equal to a spider bite as well

  • Ate one once...It was horrible. :(

  • how bad does it hurt to get bit by one?

  • @lobsidedballs Uh... Pretty bad... trust me :L

  • these guys are cool but man do they pack a nasty sting/bite/suck=lol

  • Those things are so cool =D <3

  • i love those things i wish i could have one as a pet!

  • @KuTsubasa Did you expect a bug the size of a dog? Lol.

  • i've ate one

  • I found one of these in my pool, except it was twice as large! At first I though it was a fish.

  • They are not poison, I actually found one as well they have a horn or beak type thing under their head which the use to inject a form of saliva into their pray which breaks down the meaty tissue in smaller creatures such as minnow which allows them to eat. Another term for them is "toe bitter" because sometimes they will bite an unsuspecting swimmer, in short their bite is not poisonous, but will only cause a lot of pain.

  • @billfunklaunch

    Actually it is mildly toxic hence the flesh dissolving ability as well as the pain..

  • That thing come near my house, I kill it!

  • Watch out those things can fly at you.....and inject painful acid like stuff....

  • Giant Water bug....in a ziploc container...

  • I would have dropped an M-80 in there and have fun...

  • Ita called a water SCORPION and mine will eat feeder fish,small gold fish,crickets,tadpoles,meal worms,and some small frogs

  • the largest ones in south america aperently can grow to aprox 8" and will actualy catch and eat..(well liquify and drink) piranahs =)...they inject that long needle like proboscis into theyre prey and drink though it like a straw

  • Hope this isn't in New York 0_0

  • the giant water bug is the cutest little bug i have ever seen!!! :) it's lil claws and big buggy eyes!!!! AWWWW! cute cute cute cute cute bug. :)

  • Hahaha look up Giant Waterbug VS. Golfish. After you have finished, you can answer a few questions. I hope you enjoyed that fun little video!

    1. How cute are stupid giant waterbugs now?

    2. Did you see how the sick waterbug gripped onto the poor golfishes soft, delicate helpless flesh to dig for the kill? And the goldfish tried to pull away but it digged it's sharp claws in deeper and ingected more poison?

    Alrighty, hope you liked the quiz! :( Poor goldie! :( I seriously cried after watching

  • I saw one of these at my local park.

  • When I lived in florida, my sister and i caught one that was about 8 inches long!!! I didn't let it get close to me and I wouldn't go in the pool for a month after that. Now I live in maine and I have caught some others too, but none big, and I have held them and they do sting me. My hand will hurt for a couple hours then get numb. I can't imagine what getting stung by one that big would feel like.

  • i seen 1 of them in a pool 1 time thats y i never learn to swim!

  • Congratulations! You have enough intelligence to get a bug into a tupperware container. Unfortunately, you're stressing out a living being for no clear reason.

  • @patois231 Stop getting all pissy. This is a person who probably never handled a big insect like this before and he was probably just excited to record it.

  • brah, i fucking eat these all the time, you boil them alive and then shuck them like crayfish, so goddamn good.

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  • apparently they are also attracted to street lights, it was dark when this one flew into the gas pump I was at, missed my head by 6 inches, hit the pump with a bang! The gas station has tall sodium lamps and there are marshes outside the town and lakes in the mountain. Hope I never come across this swimming in a lake somewheres..man..they eat small fish and other aquatic animals..like a spider does, injecting a chemical soup and sucking out the liquified inners..yerk!!

  • Last nite this flew into a gas pump while I was filling my car.. never in my life had seen such a big bug, 4 inches long!! Went home and researched, found out it wasa giant water bug, their bite is NOT poisonous, but will give you a lot of pain and swelling for 2 weeks!! They are also called Toe Biters..they live in slow moving water streams, and are mainly seen flying about in spring and fall because they R looking to find DEEP water where they can live under the ice in winter here in Quebec

  • my sister found one at the baseball diamond where she plays. it was a really weird place to find it, because there's no standing water nearby, esp not the environment they prefer. the nearest river was maybe a mile or two away. i guess it was cuz of the big stadium lights. it took us a long to find out what it is cuz she only had a "north woods insects" book and we live about 10 miles away from lake michigan in WI.

  • @ crazybuttful

    The fact that you are to stupid to realize it's an INSECT makes me sad.

  • Better watch your feet, they're nicknamed "Toe Biters!"

  • @NatashaFatale59 Fuck this! I'm going to walk around in full riot armor...and boots.

  • the fact that you torture that animal it's a bad thing and it makes me sad

  • @crazybuttful your a fucking moron, its a bug. you bleeding hearts suck.

  • even the babies hurt

  • I flipped a shit when I saw it on my friends back in the pool. I had to hit it a million times with my kickboard to knock it out. They are scary ass warriors.

  • microwave the fucker!

  • lol my dad put one in a bucket and he said "hey collin wake up, look wat i found!' he put the bucket right in front of me and i about shit myself

  • they are not poisonous..... in denmark they are callt "skopiontæge"

  • i dont even swim in my pool anymore now becaus eof an encounter with one of those

  • I found a giant one of those once, I didn't hesitate, I quickly grabbed a hammer and rained a f***ng firestorm upon it!!!!, I felt so guilty, after that I actually caught one and noticed how beautiful it was.

  • looks like that giant bug off of mimic the movie

  • Is that what that thing is?

    I found one of those in my garage once. It was the size of a pack of cigarettes! First I thought it was a weird leaf, then I noticed it had big ugly legs that were crawling toward me. Then I thought it was a friggin' alien life form.

    There's no way I was going to step on it, so I told it to get the hell out of my garage. Lucky for me, it did. And I could hear the bastard walk as it left.

    I keep a flamethrower in my garage at all times now.

  • @FSMLosst LOL you told him to leave? lol that was cute

  • Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.........

  • THATS A BIG ASS MOTHERFUCKER!

  • that isn't nothing.On the news they found a 30 foot long sea bug . YES A 30 FOOTER.

  • @cisco760ca

    30 inches actually

  • @theantidentite yea your right i dont know what i was on that day ...

  • The actually inject a liquefying substance through their mouthparts, then suck their prey up. They eat insects, fish, frogs and other water creatures. One time someone saw a giant water bug in the water over a 25cm trout. It kept wiggling two of its legs, and the fish was tricked into thinking that they were food. It came up to the surface, and then both animals disappeared. A few minutes later the dead ifsh floated to the surface, with the giant water bug clinging to its face!

  • i saw that kind of a creature in animal planet .. and national geographic channel

  • I saw one in our swimming pool. Filmed it and just finished uploading the video. I didn't know they were poisonous! Maybe I shouldn't have eaten it. I think I'm gonna be sick. Over.

  • That's not a roach

  • Its a space station!

  • I saw one of these around where I live once. It wasn't moving, it looked like a cockroach with pincers, so I stepped on it. I figured we didn't need any of these around where I live so I might as well kill'em if I see them. At the time I didn't know what it was, I just killed it because it looked nasty, but apparently these things really hurt when they bite.

  • I catch these all the time and feed them fish from Petco

    (the feeder fish, not the pretty ones!)

  • @TheMaineLobstah Haha thats fucked up the ugly fish not the pretty ones!

  • creepy i never watch this again its so yag

  • I see those all of the time were I live.

  • Holy shit.

  • It's not really poisonous, it has digestive saliva which gets in the wound when it bites, making it REALLY painful.

    Which is why I'm afraid of them.

  • creepy... O_O

  • if u know its a water bug put it in water dumb ass..

  • Jesus, people always gotta criticize others for little or no reason, without even knowing why.

    For god's sake, a giant waterbug doesn't NEED to be in water, I've seen quite a few walking about on dry land and not having a problem with it.

  • there on ground when they try find new water and dont find it generally ending up with them dieing

  • They do not have the most painful bite at all. I've been tagged by literally hundreds of different animals. I can tell you from personal experience, that their bite sucks, no doubt, but the tarantula hawk wasp has them beat 100 fold. As well as a number of different scorpions, centipedes, some tarantulas, and definately some ants. I kept one in an aquarium long ago. She ate a dozen fish a week. Awesome!

  • i caught one like this in a swamp on a grade 10 ecology field trip.

  • It's got wings!

  • These guys rock! They can fly, burrow, crawl, swim, they're all terrain killers! I kept one in a simple 10G aquarium, w a few live plants and a pump/filter. Fed him fish, tadpoles, shrimp, anything that moved he'd grab it and suck out it's insides! It was brutal and prehistoric.

  • Ye those ones are sooo cool...Once i was going to swim in a lake one of those bit me in my finger, fucking hurts!! My friend catched it with a net and we throwed it in a aquarium with some fish =D

    Week later all the fish were dead.

  • @TRIBALSPIRIT7 You should post videos of you feeding it.

  • u can actualy find these things in the pool...........its freeky u never know whats swimming around u....

  • Umm...... Ew?

  • i think ive seen that type of bug at my grandmas house and it scared me half to death

  • what breed of dog is this

  • where is this? ahhh.

  • one of these bitches bit me like 5 times when i was in the pool

  • o got, can these fly, and are they in middle east meaning like north caralina

  • yes they can fly, i found mine flying down the street outside my trailer in idaho

  • i might kill myself thinking about that

  • Oh my god if I was you, I'd never swim again, how could you not get scared of those things lol?

  • NEVER let them bite you. They have the most painfull bite in the world.

  • It's much prettier than those ugly city water bugs

  • kill it....

  • thats a flat mantis

  • Wow

  • Let it go i feel bad if i wached it in there its also bites you know.

  • these are in my pool =[

  • i was screaming the whole time i was watching this

  • whys that were you gettin corn holed?

  • will the poison kill u? >:), cuz if it does im gonna throw it at the neighbor's cat :)

  • lol good idea go get one but be careful that it wont poison you :P

  • No it doesn't kil but you will have a strong fever.

  • can this harm a human?

  • yea it can

  • thanks, It's actually the first time i ever saw one, it was in my grandparents pool and it was the first time they ever saw one in there after 30 some years of having the pool.

  • spooky little guy

  • They have the most painful bite an insect can give, and their saliva is known to liquify tissue...

  • arent they supposed to be in water...

  • looks like a pissed off puerto rican

  • I found one in the garden a couple of days ago (in southern Ontario). They are HUGE but deliver a nasty bite. I moved it as my cats were too interested for their own good.

  • he doesn't look happy lol

  • wow i just found one of these outside my dorm in south dakota, the closest river is a mile away...scary looking bastard isnt it

  • they are really poisonous, they will inject an anasthetic saliva into u which from what i heard hurts like a ghetto bitch who aint had her dinner.

  • Now that's funny!!!

  • LMFAO.

  • @UkPR0

    epic win

  • @UkPR0 this comment might be two years old but it made me laugh my ass off xD

  • @UkPR0 I'm from Philly and I understand =)

  • There really IS a such thing as a deadly water bug!! XD All this time I thought it was just a dream. That's a creepy son of a bitch, by the way. According to my dream, it's claimed many victims in the shower.

  • the deadly poison they contain will kill you in less than 5 minutes!

  • goddamn thats a big bug!

  • where the hell do u live?? the Amazon??

  • I caught one of those in a stream once. Such a cute bug!

  • We get these bastards in he oil patch in Alberta. Those things are hideous and huge!!!

  • MAN I wanna see one of these come in contact with a frog. (From what Ive heard, you literally see the frog deflate and turn into a pile of skin.)

  • Holy crap that thing's crazy big and they bite like a mo fo. DX

  • that actually known as a backswimmer...i found one in my pool and it hurt like hell!

    big specimen btw :0

  • ok i wanna see that fucker eat somethin

  • sweet I want one!

  • i want one as a pet there cool

  • lol

  • times like these im glad insects are not giants

  • Look at it this way: If insects were giant, you wouldn't be scared, you'd be dead...

  • They are great! Beer Batter dipped and deep fried. MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm Yummy!

  • I hate those things.

  • I always wondered why people called giant cockroaches waterbugs? I guess it's a NY thing.

  • so can someone tell me where i could get one of these?

  • How big do those things get?

  • can i poke it?

  • they arent deadly, I get them in my pool sometime, when the pool needs more chlorine, they do bite but It wont hurt you.

  • yeah they have an extremely painful bite as they inject anaesthetic saliva into u..

  • If they inject anaesthetic saliva they get LESS pain because thats what the anaesthetics for!

  • no obviously it aint the same stuff as the medicine...god..

  • water scorpion: the water scorpion has a tube like thing on its ass that it sticks up into the air while its body stays under water watiing for a fish to swim by. once its in its attack range it grabs it quickly and pierces its skin injecting saliva into the fish which turns the fishes inside into a nice soup.

  • their not poisonous...they inject syliva into you and it just really hurts.

  • I just got like 5 of them from a kid from school, theyre awesome.

  • not posonis

  • EW! I hate those, they call them Cane Roaches in Belle Glade, FL cuz there are tons of them in the sugar cane fields. It's a Giant Water Bug that can grow to 4 inches, however it looks like some kind of pesticide mutated cockroach. They scare the shit outta me!

  • They come out in spring to seek out mates so they are often found at night in parking lots of factories located out aways in rural areas with swamps nearby. That is strictly seasonal. They eat practically everything in the water including frogs that aren't too much bigger than they are as bigger frogs will eat them.Their bite is painful. They eat everything inside the victim leaving only the skin like a spider does, their venom digests the victims' innards. They are cannibals as well.

  • I found one a couple days ago at work. They're not dangerous or aggressive; I used to handle them when i was a kid. Though if one does bite you, it's supposed to be quite painful - no personal experience with that, though ;)

  • lol it looks like the mini alien parisites from clover field

  • i get those all the time in my bathroom. I didn't know they were deadly!

    UH OH!!!!

  • they can fly

  • I caught one of these in Our Pool last night

    I showed it to the cops and they decided to alert people and put it in the paper. They Took the bug from me. Good God.

  • ok here guys i have a good question um if they attack cats would the poisonous beak kill them????and i found it in my back yard where there is no freaking water!!!!!

  • crazy

  • Wow. Those things can't fly can they?

  • Yeah they can and do fly... but not very well.

  • I found one of those before. I believe they're called water scorpions.

  • *points to the title*

    I've found a juvenile one at the monocacy river.

  • where r they naturally found?

  • Kentucky

  • those things come to this world with a bad attitude, just stick ur finger in there and theyll take it as an insult and bite u..

  • amazing

  • I read they pinch people's toes!

  • omg im a dude fuck that! i would scream like a lil bitch. i am absolutly terrified of them damn bugs

  • i caught one before and i put a fish in the bucket and it bit it =P

  • thats awsome

  • That shit is fucking hideous!!

  • They get alot bigger in East Africa and are a big nusance at night cause they are attracted to the light.

    They not poisonous, not to humans anyway. You can eat them, bugs are pretty good for you to eat -but first break the legs off then it goes down easier.

  • it's not as bad as the hissing coackraoch or the regular one that like the size of a pen

  • OMFG NOW IM PARANOID....that is huge...That is soooo scary!!! ugh! I wish I wasn't afraid of them...=___________=;