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5/22/15                Big Eyed Toad Bugs Do It

Nepomorpha (Aquatic Bugs)-Gelastocoridae (Toad Bugs)- Gelastocoris oculatus (Big-Eyed Toad Bug) Male and Female. 

Latin oculatus ’[big-]eyed’

Size 6-9 mm

Identification A common, though well-camouflaged bug of muddy freshwater shorelines.

Some characters:walks, or sometimes, hops sides of prothorax projecting coloration extremely variable

Range throughout the contiguous US and in so. Canada (ON, MB); Mexico

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Wasp katydid, Aganacris velutina, Tettingoniidae

Found in Central and northern South America, this species of katydid expertly  mimics tarantula hawk wasps in the genus Pepsis, but it is, of course, harmless.

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Tarantula hawk wasp, Pepsis mildei, for comparison: