Giant Waterbug Vs. Goldfish

WARNING: This video contains natural predation of a fish which I believe is bleeding from its gills in bursts.
The giant water bug (Lethocerus americanus) may eat fish, tadpoles, and even frogs in the wild. Their nicknames are "toe biter" and "cow killer" due to the painful nature of their bite.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• giant
• water
• bug
• insect
• toebiter
• toe
• biter
• cow
• killer
• vs
• versus
• goldfish
• fish
• predator
• prey
• feeding
• eating
• carnivore

[tah1795]

Do they eat the whole thing or just suck out the juices like a spider does?

[PenanggalanMonster]

@tah1795 Basically that. They have a digestive juice they inject into the prey to soften the insides for easier digestion.

[PenanggalanMonster]

@lilrdog aren't we a cute little youtube badass. Fish are these insects' NATURAL diet; a goldfish is no more special or important than an insect. You're just as bad as those idiots who leave nasty threatening comments on snake feeding videos. You don't scare me. You must be a child if you can't comprehend or handle nature.

[Scythemantis]

A giant waterbug is a predator that ONLY eats living things. In the wild it waits until a fish swims by and eats it, that's all it does. You're seriously threatening someone for feeding their pet the only thing it'll eat? And what the fuck makes a bug less important than a fish anyway? I'm willing to bet YOU eat meat all the fucking time, if it makes you angry for an insect to survive eating live fish why don't you go vegan, asshat?

Insects aren't disgusting, they're fascinating, cool animals.

[MrAnderson0110]

@PenanggalanMonster Telling people the deal, like a sir. Bugs are cooler than fish anyway (except sharks).

[keeyk118b]

Nice. Goldfish are meant to be eaten by predators.

[comedycort]

Thank you for posting this, It was very sad but it somewhat help me write another sentence for my english paper.

[DeathWish1230]

wonder wat my sis would do if she saw this? lets go find out -:)

[TheNosyGamer]

ITS MINE lol

[nadrepadre]

I actually found one these in the parking lot today at work. Leaning against some snow plows when I saw something moving in my peripheral vision. I look over expecting to see a mouse. Never saw one of these things this big. When I tried to box him up he kept gnashing his pincers at me. Took a few pictures and then released him in a swamp. Easily the coolest insect I've seen in nature

[Scythemantis]

@wolljuergen "Not nature?" Are you really that ignorant? This is EXACTLY what happens in nature. Giant waterbugs eat almost nothing but small, live fish, tadpoles and other invertebrates. The fish was not fed to it for fun, it was fed to it because it WILL NOT EAT ANYTHING ELSE, so yes, this is a pet being kept alive. Cats and dogs are predators too, and the food we give them out of a bag contains brutally slaughtered animals. Do you think an insect doesn't deserve to be cared for or something?

[Scythemantis]

@wolljuergen "Not nature?" Are you really that ignorant? This is EXACTLY what happens in nature. Giant waterbugs eat almost nothing but small, live fish, tadpoles and other invertebrates. The fish was not fed to it for fun, it was fed to it because it WILL NOT EAT ANYTHING ELSE, so yes, this is a pet being kept alive. Cats and dogs are predators too, and the food we give them out of a bag contains brutally slaughtered animals. Do you think an insect doesn't deserve to be cared for or something?

[wolljuergen]

that`s so sick!!

I don`t know where the video maker comes from, but I don`t accept it.

To show something like that is cruel and not nature. I have to fish tanks and the sense behind is, to keep the animals alive, as long as possible and not to make a Zombie movie.

Sick, simply sick.

[Suiton1]

The video is not cruel, nature is.