water bug
noun
: any of various small arthropods and especially insects that frequent damp or wet places: such as
a
b
c
: any of various large aquatic bugs (family Belostomatidae) with the hind legs flattened and used for swimming
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These tadpoles seem to have found strength in numbers, swarming past attacks from water bugs and leeches to continue nibbling on food—and any other appealing organisms that passed by.
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Liz Lindqwister, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
After mating, a female water bug lays 100 or more eggs in a clump on the male’s back.
—Ben Guarino, Popular Science, 13 June 2024
During another federal monitor inspection, visitors found unsanitary conditions including live roaches, ants, water bugs, fruit flies, gnats, and mouse droppings.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
But, because so many arrived in a short period of time, the possibility of the water bugs starting a population on Cyprus is not out of the question, the researchers said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
His business, Urban Pest Management, handles everything from water bugs to pigeons but has recently come to specialize in rats.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2023
Maybe that’s why there haven’t been water bugs in the hole.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
Here, a man is eating a fried water bug in Thailand.
—Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2015
What clarified my thinking: a giant, probably mutant water bug that crept across the bedroom floor.
—Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
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Liz Lindqwister, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
After mating, a female water bug lays 100 or more eggs in a clump on the male’s back.
—Ben Guarino, Popular Science, 13 June 2024
During another federal monitor inspection, visitors found unsanitary conditions including live roaches, ants, water bugs, fruit flies, gnats, and mouse droppings.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
But, because so many arrived in a short period of time, the possibility of the water bugs starting a population on Cyprus is not out of the question, the researchers said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
His business, Urban Pest Management, handles everything from water bugs to pigeons but has recently come to specialize in rats.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2023
Maybe that’s why there haven’t been water bugs in the hole.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
Here, a man is eating a fried water bug in Thailand.
—Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2015
What clarified my thinking: a giant, probably mutant water bug that crept across the bedroom floor.
—Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
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