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#1 Riffledace

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 04:54 PM

Here's my waterscorpion getting dinner on a stick. Originally had a much better video where it reacted faster and more voraciously, but sadly that footage was lost while trying to trim it down to postable size.Attached File  trim.F04B263A-075E-4735-92D8-47E9A96E0E14.MOV   3.6MB   53 downloads

#2 mattknepley

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 05:31 PM

Too dang cool! What's he eating? Kinda looks like Cricket Keeper chow...
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#3 Riffledace

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 07:06 PM

Just a chunk of frozen cocktail shrimp.

Edited by Riffledace, 12 January 2015 - 07:10 PM.


#4 Riffledace

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 07:08 PM

Admittedly, it's probably not the best thing to feed hemipterans, since there's no skin or shell to hold it in when it becomes soup.

Edited by Riffledace, 12 January 2015 - 07:10 PM.


#5 Kanus

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Posted 13 January 2015 - 08:58 AM

That is awesome though! I should try that with the various insects I keep. I currently have a Cybister fimbriolatus and a Lethocerus griseus that I would like to keep in good shape to observe. Perhaps target feeding with impaled food is in order!

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#6 Matt DeLaVega

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Posted 13 January 2015 - 10:26 AM

I had never thought about actually keeping one. Why not though? Very cool. Now I am going to have to read up on waterscorpions, as I really know very little about them.

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#7 gerald

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Posted 13 January 2015 - 02:16 PM

I've kept Ranatra and large diving beetles (Cybister or Dystiscus? not sure) feeding them mostly mealworms and occasional other insects. Large diving beetles I find more often while playing tennis at night than when out hunting for fish & bugs (my principal reason for playing tennis). I've never seen a live Lethocerus wild - only the small common Belostoma.

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#8 Riffledace

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Posted 13 January 2015 - 04:23 PM

I find that lethocerus are hard to find by netting in water- it's better to use a strong UV light ( such as a bug zapper with the wires leading to the electrocuting grid cut) shined against a big white sheet in field next a body of water. You can catch tons of lethocerus, as well as lots of other neat bugs, aquatic or otherwise. Also a great way to collect live food. Lethocerus are pretty boring, though. You get to watch them viciously attack a food item once every few weeks, then they just sit there ignoring food the rest of the time.

#9 Riffledace

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Posted 14 January 2015 - 06:56 PM

And now, here's my lethocerus eating a dead cockroach:Attached File  trim.F211A089-D6B9-40F2-9C9B-EAAB4DFBA546.MOV   586.08KB   8 downloads
For some reason, i could post the waterscorpion video even though it was much longer than this, but it wouldn't let me post this until I made it really short.

#10 Isaac Szabo

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Posted 14 January 2015 - 07:59 PM

Neat videos. You would be better off uploading your videos to a site like youtube and then linking or embedding them here. That way you wouldn't have any file size limit issues.




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