[PatBranch]

video: http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/fish/Cottus_gobio/Cottus_gobio_11.html

Larva

Great Diving Beetle larvae are the young stage of a large water beetle.

They live in freshwater ponds and are fierce carnivores.

The large, pointed, sickle-shaped jaws are sunk into the prey like hypodermic needles. Digestive enzymes are pumped into the body of the prey and the resulting 'soup' is sucked back up.

Great Diving Beetle larvae will eat anything they can catch. Their favourite prey includes tadpoles and any other insects within reach. They are also cannibalistic and will eat other Great Diving Beetle larvae. Large larvae in the final stage before pupation, are of sufficient size to even catch and eat small fish.

The larvae often appear scorpion-like in the water because they move about with their tails extended vertically upwards. They will frequently push the tail up through the water surface to take in atmospheric oxygen through the terminal spiracle (air-hole). More...

These are in my friend's pond at his ranch in SLO... They make such a gnarly screech.

 

[DirtyMike]

i am not sure what that is, but when I wake up, My liver is gonna be pissed

 

[gonefirefightin]

i am not sure what that is, but when I wake up, My liver is gonna be pissed

that bug looks like your baby pictures.

either that or you shot a self portrait down your pants

 

[pigboy]

but can we genetically engineer a version big enough to eat human children? and which would win in a fight?

genetically engineered giant great diving beetle larva vs. crack whore baby

 

[PatBranch]

Bad idea....

 

[HAB]

+

 

[SkaredShtles]

Dude... it's a tiny insect.

 

[thebornotaku]

WD40 and lighters works better.

 

[BrooklynMachine]

WD40 and lighters works better.

Underwater?

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

 

[BrooklynMachine]

Git.Er.Done.:biggrin:

 

[caputo1989]

i am not sure what that is, but when I wake up, My liver is gonna be pissed

Shouldn't you be waiting for your kid to wake up in the middle of the night crying and not drinking. Or are you always drinking because of the baby.

Honest question... yeah?

 

[HAB]

Dude... it's a tiny insect.

Yeah, you're right. What was I thinking?










You wouldn't need such a big lighter.

 

[Sandwich]

a compadre of mine caught one of those with bare feet on a science expedition once...by accident. We put it in a small bowl for observation with two minnows...it ate one...the other disappeared as well a while later. It bit the dang thing right in half.

w00dy's former landlord's pool was crawling with those things. Yes, his pool. He had a small 6x12 foot pool which he didn't maintain, and it turned into a pond...which f.cking predatious diving beetles in it.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Dobsonfly Larvae, the Hellgrammite > Diving Beetle

Ive seen them over 3 inches.