Giant Water Bug
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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.
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Quick somebody raid it.
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all water bug are poison ? because i saw one in the pool and it touch my nipples
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no, don't kill these things, just leave them alone. I saved one once from some mean kids, they can bite/sting tho.
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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.
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i found five yesterday
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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.
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Put it back outside.
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this is a sign of a soon to be mojave wasteland
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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.
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 1 year ago 21
microwave the fucker!
DinoGuts 1 year ago 3