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Giant water bug

Lethocerus americanus

Malunga negama: Its nicknames come from its habits: 'toe biter' for its painful bite and 'electric light bug' for being drawn to lights at night.1

Kubuhlungu njeKubuhlungu, kodwa akusayi kukwenzakalisa kakhulu.

Imibungu nezinambuzane

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Sihlala

Southern Canada and the United States, north of 35°N. Other Lethocerus species live further south.1

uMntla Melika

Ekhaya

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

Ubude

5 cm ukuya ku-6 cm (2 in ukuya ku-2,4 in)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-0,9 km/h (0,56 mph)

Ukuqubha, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

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

Ifoto ka-Giant water bug — Giant water bug. Ifoto: Ken-ichi Ueda. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

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

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: 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

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

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

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

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

Ukuba siyaluma

Kwiinwele zemibungu ehlabayo: zisuse ngeteyipu encamathelayo, emva koko uhlambe isikhumba. Musa ukukhuhla.
Kukulunywa: hlamba uze upholise. Fumana uncedo lwezonyango ukuba umntu uziva engaphilanga kakuhle okanye wopha lula.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Ukuba siyakuluma: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

ubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-2 zilandelelana

U-Giant water bug mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Inkumba yasegadini malunga ne-0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

Giant water bug malunga ne-0,9 km/h (0,56 mph)

Umntu oqubhayo malunga ne-3 km/h (1,9 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

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

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

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

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

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

Umqhekezi weentsomi

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

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

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Lethocerus americanus
Iqela: Imibungu nezinambuzane
Usapho: Belostomatidae2
Ucwangco: Hemiptera
Amazwekazi: uMntla Melika
Iintsana: 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
Ingozi ebantwini: 2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Lethocerus americanus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Lethocerus americanus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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