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  • waterbuttswaterbutts Posts: 1,242

    It's a backswimmer. Look at Wikipedia images of Notonecta species.image

  • XX Posts: 707

    Certainly looks like that's it Waterbutts, just looking around Internet to see if it bites.  No ponds in immediate vicinity though.  Thank you image

    apparently they have a painful bite...

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,612

    Well done waterbutts. Wikipedia says it bites or stab  using proboscis. And  yes cockroaches have antennae.

    We had a cockroach hitch a lift from Australia in a suitcase. A week later it ran up  other halfs leg in the shower. He squealed like a girl. Thankfully we caught it, and environmental health Identified it as a male, so no eggs.

  • waterbuttswaterbutts Posts: 1,242

    image

    Just found a French website telling children not to try and catch these as they will give you a nasty bite. They eat small fish and other stuff. They can fly well.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    back swimmer, water boatman, same insectimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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