Giant Water Bugs, Predaceous Diving Beetles
"kathy" wrote in message oups.com... Anyone ever get one of these in their ponds? Giant Water Bugs can get to be three inches long, have these spincer type front legs and bite. Predaceous Diving Beetles are about an inch long, hang out at the surface of the water with their hind ends sticking out. Their lavrae are called Water Tigers. All three of them eat small fish and tadpoles and small frogs. ====================== I can't recall spotting the beetles themselves, but do remember seeing the Water Tigers eating tadpoles and fry. -- Carol.... the frugal ponder... "People who live in glass houses should make love in the basement." ~~~~~~~ }((((((o Completely FREE softwa http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
"kathy" wrote in message oups.com... Anyone ever get one of these in their ponds? Giant Water Bugs can get to be three inches long, have these spincer type front legs and bite. Predaceous Diving Beetles are about an inch long, hang out at the surface of the water with their hind ends sticking out. Their lavrae are called Water Tigers. All three of them eat small fish and tadpoles and small frogs. ====================== I can't recall spotting the beetles themselves, but do remember seeing the Water Tigers eating tadpoles and fry. -- Carol.... the frugal ponder... "People who live in glass houses should make love in the basement." ~~~~~~~ }((((((o Completely FREE softwa http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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