Water bugs are carnivores, using a needle-like beak to pierce and feed on other insects, tadpoles, and small fish. Some species, like the giant water bug (sometimes called a “toe-biter”), can ...

Water bugs are typically brown or grayish in color, ... American cockroach / Picture right: Water bug. ... who heads the Schal Lab at North Carolina State University, ...

Watch as this water bug ... continues to broaden: though already swimming through some waterways in North America, East Asia, and South America, researchers found that the bug has ...

Some research also suggests that in Europe, the giant water bugs are advancing further north because of climate change, Scientific American reported in 2013. So there's that to look forward to ...

He left it on my desk, a giant water bug (Lethocerus americanus), 55 mm long (that's over two inches!) abd one of the biggest bugs in North America!

Giant water bugs are in the latter category, but many people would rather think of them as nightmare-inducing, ... North American Giant Water Bug (Belostoma flumineum) eating a fish.