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Natal Giant water bug
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Giant water bug

Lethocerus americanus
Ko faati e innde ndee: Its nicknames come from its habits: 'toe biter' for its painful bite and 'electric light bug' for being drawn to lights at night.1
Ina muusi tanIna muusi, kono ɓetataa ma no feewi.
Ngooɓuuli e ɓuuɓuuli ŊatgolIna ñaama: Teew
Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.

The giant water bug is a large, flat-bodied insect that lives in ponds, marshes and slow streams. It hunts other animals, including small fish and frogs, and it can give a painful bite if handled. It is found in southern Canada and the United States.1

Ina wuuri e
Southern Canada and the United States, north of 35°N. Other Lethocerus species live further south.1
Amerik Rewo
Hello arano
It lives in ponds, marshes, and on the edges of lakes and slow-moving streams and creeks. Adults may fly at night and be attracted to electric lights.1
Juuteendi
5 cm haa 6 cm (2 in haa 2,4 in)1
Yaawde ɓurnde
hedde 0,9 km/h (0,56 mph)
Yoowde, miijo
Hol ko ngal ñaamata?
Adults and young eat other insects, small crustaceans such as crabs and crayfish, tadpoles, frogs, snails and small fish. It grabs prey with its front legs and injects digestive toxins through a retractable proboscis like a mosquito's. Several bugs have been seen hunting and sharing the same prey.1
Goonga!Natal Giant water bug
Giant water bug. Natal: Ken-ichi Ueda. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

No anndirte ngal

  • Adults are about 5–6 cm long.1
  • It has natural camouflage that helps it hide in the water.1
  • It swims using its hind legs.1
  • Its front pair of legs is used to grab and hold prey.1

Ina heewi waylondireede e: It is often confused with Benacus griseus, which can be told apart by grooves on its front femora (the thick upper parts of the front legs) that fit the tibiae when folded. It is very similar to L. uhleri.1

Doole tooke

Ŋatgol

Tooke ngal ina yaltira ñiiƴe mum so ina ŋata.

Hol ko tooke ŋatgol mum waɗata?

The bug injects digestive toxins into its prey through its proboscis. It lets the prey digest for 10–15 minutes before it eats.1

Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?

Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.

A bite is painful and may happen if the bug is handled or disturbed. It prefers to avoid people rather than confront them.1

Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?

When disturbed, it first tries to escape or play dead, then raises its front legs and hind end in a fighting stance, and may latch on and bite.1

So ina ŋata

  • Ngam leɓɓe ngooɓuuli jukkooje: ittu ɗe e skots ɓataaɗo, refti loot nguru ngu. Wota a moomtu.
  • Ngam ŋatgol: loot nokku oo, ɓuuɓnu. Heɓ ballal cafrol so neɗɗo oo ina wiya wonaa e jam, walla ina ƴiiɗa ko newii.

Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal

Reen hoore maa

  • Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
  • Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
  • So gooto ŋatii ma: deƴƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911) walla yahu opitaal law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal ina walla.

Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Ina huutoroo tooke mum ngam nanngude ñaamdu walla reenaade, ina ɓuri yiɗde suuɗaade. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo

Hol no mawniri?

Hol no juutiri?

Giant water bug hedde 6 cm juutde (2,4 in)Ñippirde kaayitaaje hedde 3 cm (1,2 in)Telefon mo smart hedde 15 cm (5,9 in)
juutde no kaaɗe mahirɗe 2 ɗaɓɓondiraaɗe

Hol no Giant water bug mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?

Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.

Hol no yaawiri?

moƴƴi anndude

Humpito

1

It breathes air trapped under its wings, using two snorkel-like tubes at the back of its abdomen.1

2

Several bugs may hunt together and share the same prey.1

3

Few young survive to adulthood, because adults eat other nymphs and other predators also hunt them.1

4

It can be attracted to electric lights while flying at night, which gives it the name electric light bug.1

5

Adults survive winter by burrowing under mud and leaf litter.1

Feññinoowo fenaande

Fenaande: It is a 'toe biter' that goes looking for people to bite.

Goonga: It prefers to avoid humans. It bites mainly when it is handled or disturbed.1

Ngam ganduɓe tooke

Innde ganndal
Lethocerus americanus
Fedde
Ngooɓuuli e ɓuuɓuuli
Ɓesngu
Belostomatidae2
Ordre
Hemiptera
Leyɗe mawɗe
Amerik Rewo
Ɓiɓɓe tokooso
Eggs are laid on plants at the water's edge and may be guarded by an adult. Nymphs hatch about two weeks later, and a female may lay about 150 or more eggs in her lifetime.1
Bone e yimɓe
2 / 5: Muusɗo3

Ɗo humpito iwri

  1. Lethocerus americanus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Lethocerus americanus (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.

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