Know Your Insects: The Giant Water Bug

[juanoclock]

Have you ever read Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek? Wonderful book. A bit long-winded, but the long-windedness is forgivable because the things she has to say are monumental

Comments

[juanoclock]

Which finger was it?

[bareftinthesnow]

I dug up a larval one in a stream bed last summer. It was 3" long and had an exoskeleton.

[bareftinthesnow]

Oops, never mind. That was a predatory diving beetle (Dytiscidae) of some sort.

[alleykitten]

Please tell me these things aren't in California.

[juanoclock]

Well, they're not indigenous to the region

[saciel]

So guys... START EATING THE MENACE

(it worked when I was in China. We couldn't sleep because of the bullfrogs, so then I started eating a bullfrog dish in a restaurant. The next days we could sleep perfectly, I guess I scared them XD)

[drhoz]

You forgot to mention that they carry their eggs around on their back