This is one of my favorite pictures.  Belostoma and other Hemiptera bugs aren't fully aquatic, and when I stuck this one in my aquarium it quickly crawled out of the water and up to the highest point, a pair of tiny mushrooms growing on a soggy log.  Belostoma flumineum (Electric Light Bug) Giant Water Bug Adult from the West Branch of Owego Creek in New York
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This is one of my favorite pictures. Belostoma and other Hemiptera bugs aren't fully aquatic, and when I stuck this one in my aquarium it quickly crawled out of the water and up to the highest point, a pair of tiny mushrooms growing on a soggy log.
Belostoma flumineum (Electric Light Bug) Giant Water Bug Adult from the West Branch of Owego Creek in New York

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