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Uploaded by on Sep 16, 2006

I found this Lethocerus americana, or giant water bug, outside my apartment the other day. They live in slow moving water along streams and in ponds and eat other insects and even fish. Their beak is poisonous. It's pretty much huge.

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  • 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.

  • microwave the fucker!

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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.

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