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large brown bug (Giant water bug)

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bug encounter
by: Sean

Hopped out of my car and saw this beast of a brown bug that scared me at first due to the proximity to my shoe thought maye hissing cockroach or the pincher beetle but walking with pinchers nope giant water bug. Ely, MN
Swimming with the giant water bug
by: DEE

As others have mentioned, this is a giant water bug (Lethocerus sp.)
Last year my son and I were swimming in our community pool and one of these was swimming with us and swam towards my son and could not be scared away. We were able to splash it out of the pool. These are fierce predators that stalk, capture and feed on aquatic crustaceans, fish and amphibians. Their bite is considered one of the most painful that can be inflicted by any insect and can be quite destructive to tissue and rarely can do permanent damage. It was big enough to give us a scare but have not seen one since although our pool on the shore of Utah lake where I think it came from.

large brown water bug
by: Sunshine

I live in south florida. One nite I went out on the back porch with my shitzu, she likes to sniff everything, but I saw her walking towards it it looked like it has pinchers so I grabbed her and we went in side. I later went out side to poke it with a plastic bottle to see wat it would do. It didn't move which freaked me out more so I left it alone... creepy bug..
NIAGARA FALLS
by: Anonymous

i live in canada and just found one ot these on our driveway. near niagara falls
Never seen one here Giant Water Bug
by: Anonymous

just saw one of these down in Texas, bout a hundred yards from a large pond, in the garage.
Was frantic and dragging a tangled web behind it.
Must had just escaped a spider.
Big water bug
by: Anonymous

One of these bugs washed ashore from the ocean and was trying to get out of the water in Savannah ga, it was like 4 or 5 inches long it was scary but it was eaten by a seagull.
Giant water bug
by: Moni

Karen
Anonymous was correct and provided a very informational site.
Your bug is a giant water bug. They do live in water but are attracted to lights at night. Do you live near a pond or lake?
They do like clean water so I am not sure there are as many around these days as several years ago. Perhaps they are still plentiful in TN.
Large Brown Bug
by: kimsuki

I'm certainly no entomologist, but it looks like what in Tennessee the kids used to call a "June Bug". It was a great big (let me make that HUGE) brown beetle with large horns. The first time I saw one I totally freaked out! The kids used to tie string around them and swing them through the air like a toy plane and they would make a buzzing noise as they went through the air! How cruel, but I was totally fascinated as a city girl from the San Francisco area and new to rural Tennessee. People play with bugs here!
giant water bug
by: Anonymous

not a cockroach
http://www.eduwebs.org/bugs/giant_water_bug.htm

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