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u/optimumopiumblr2 2d ago
One of the most painful insect bites you can receive if I’m not mistaken.
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u/i_love_dust 1d ago
And they can fly to
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u/Swily420swag 1d ago
They fly now?
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u/Player_A 1h ago
Their bite is meant to liquify their prey’s inside so it can suck it up, like a spider. And they can eat things up to 50 times its size including frogs and fish. Horrifying - would you like to know more?
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u/GarionOrb 1d ago
That is a giant water bug! If it manages to bite him, that dude is in for agony.
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u/Its_Pine 1d ago
Holy fuck I just had a deeply buried traumatic memory return to me. I was in Florida with my family (I think I was around 6 or 7 years old) and we were playing in the outdoor hotel pool. My brother suddenly started screaming in pain and my dad grabbed him and pulled him out of the pool to see what was wrong. He had been bit by some enormous black bug that SWAM. It looked like it had massive front pincer things and started moving towards me. I was screaming and trying to scramble out of the pool when it brushed against me, but fortunately I didn’t get bit or stung or whatever it did.
But it looked like that. It looked like that beetle.
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u/mikieballz 1d ago edited 20h ago
Fuck the bite. That's straight cardiac arrest when u find it crawling on you
Edit: I would like to drink tequila with this man
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u/AGC-ss 1d ago
THIS is why I’ll never retire in the south. I am a fan of good, freezing, bug-killing temps that come in regular intervals, thanks. All you Floridians and Arizonans and Texans? I’ll never invade your turf. You can keep all your giant bugs to yourselves.
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u/nostradarius 1d ago
Too bad, you'll need to emigrate since the Lethocerus genus is distributed across all Nord and South America, except for northern Canada (L. americanus is native in southern Canada)
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u/AGC-ss 1d ago
I didn’t say there’s a zero percent chance I’ll ever have to deal with one. I’m only saying that the chances of seeing one of these monsters is higher in the southern states.
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u/Boring_Hurry346 1d ago
I'm an Ontario fisherman wading around in some gnarly water and I have yet to see a giant one (see the little guys all the time) and I hope it remains that way. Giant Nope Beetle
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u/EasterIslandHeadass 1d ago
Nord
At first I assumed this to just be a typo, but I looked it up and wow, literally means north
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u/brunohedgerow 1d ago
My high school was inundated with these, or very similar, water bugs around the year 2000.
I say similar because while the bites, or pinches, were painful, they were nowhere near what others have described.
This was in central Minnesota
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u/all-metal-slide-rule 1d ago
I once saw what I thought was a bird circling a light in a mall parking lot. I thought it was odd, but figured it was probably eating the bugs that were attracted to the light. A few minutes later, I happened to see the "bird" crash into the light, and fall to the pavement below. Curiosity and concern got the best of me and I decided to go see what kind of bird this was. Bricks were shat when I saw that it was one of these, and it was quite a bit larger.
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u/FunnyLookinFishMan 1d ago
Im sorry but early in the vid when the mandibles are straight up and its eyes are all glowy it just looks so cute, like YIPPEE!
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u/javalinaas 2d ago
Just a big cockroach y'all.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Rice-13 1d ago
As others have said, this is a giant water bug they aren't the same by a long shot
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u/dunn_with_this 1d ago
Go ahead and pick one up for yourself, then.....
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u/javalinaas 1d ago
This person is holding one without too much concern. Do you pick up cockroaches?
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u/dunn_with_this 1d ago
Ignorance is bliss....
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u/javalinaas 1d ago
I understand the bug in the video isn't a cockroach. It was joke..
I was implying with my response that if someone knows how to hold a dangerous creature correctly it can mitigate the risk of injury, as evident in the video and that you seem like the kind of individual that goes at folks in the comment section because they don't have the guts IRL to pick up a American cockroach, or a German one for that matter..
I know that much.
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u/robertwild81 2d ago
Toe Biter - Giant Water Bug