Giant water bugs are freshwater insects that belong to ... You can find various species in Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas, Utah, and many other states.

If you’re a Floridian, you know that the Sunshine State isn’t just full of sunshine and beaches, it’s also full of bugs ... in the state. Florida is basically a giant breeding ground ...

Are giant Joro spiders in Florida ... of wasps found across the state of Florida. Allergic reactions to painful bee and wasp stings are what make these bugs deadly to some. Wasp and bee stings ...

marine or giant toads, are making an appearance in South Florida after the recent heavy rains stirred them up from their burrows and gave them plenty of water to breed in. If summer turns out to ...

Giant water bugs are highly unusual in exhibiting paternal ... The size of bears captured in Florida was larger than noted in the March 4 Natural Georgia column. According to bear researcher ...

A Florida family is afraid to use their swimming pool — and with good reason. Earlier this week, the family spotted a giant monitor lizard ... identified as an Asian water monitor (Varanus ...

The giant water bug was one. Back when the General Electric Company was ... This past April, I photographed a pair with two young in Ellenton, Fla., at a gated community. Florida sandhill cranes are a ...

Thomsen, 28, knocked it from the air with a blast of water, then carefully stepped on it. He didn't want to squish it. This sucker was going on Facebook. He placed the bug on an empty Marlboro ...

Newspaper and magazine headlines from across the country read like posters from a 1950s big-bug sci-fi flick: "'Giant' Mosquitoes Set to Invade Florida ... New-water mosquitoes lay eggs on damp ...

Or in Florida, more colorfully, "alligator ticks." Over the years people have been swimming in ponds, lakes and slow-moving streams, a few have discovered the awful pain of a giant water bug shoving ...

Not so, said University of Florida entomologist Lyle Buss. He identified the bugs as Lethocerus griseus, more commonly known as the giant water bug, or to unlucky swimmers, as "toe biter." ...