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Critter identification help
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:13 am
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:13 am
Does anyone know what this aqauatic thing is? It has small claws and a stinging tail. Found in the water by a friends kid last week and it stung him. He swelled up pretty bad. None of the people I've showed it to have any idea what it is.
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Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:19 am to rwill94
Fresh or salt?
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:26 am to LSURoss
I believe he said they were out on the Tickfaw
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:27 am to rwill94
Looks somewhat like a ranatra - water scorpion, but hard to tell size and they are usually slender.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:28 am to rwill94
Almost looks like some form of a hellgrammite
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:28 am to rwill94
Looks like the larva of a Water Beetle....dytiscidae family. I think they call them in this stage water tigers.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:31 am to FromtheVilles
This is it exactly it looks like! Thanks for the info
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:33 am to rwill94
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Critter identification help
Posted on 6/22/17 at 7:53 am to rwill94
Definitely a water tiger, but I'm about 99% sure they can't sting. Likely just got pinched which I'm sure hurt like crazy. They are a particularly aggressive invertebrate.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 8:28 am to rwill94
I've been stung by something in fresh water many times. I've never figured out what it was. Happened again this year at Toledo. I always suspected those things.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 8:43 am to The Last Coco
Yeah it's my understand they can bite you and they do have poison in the bite as this is how they subdue small fish, amphibians, etc....shouldn't be much but I suppose this could affect different people in different ways much as an ant or wasp.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 8:46 am to rwill94
Something to gauge scale would help. Looks like it is about 1 1/2" long. That about right?
Posted on 6/22/17 at 10:23 am to Barneyrb
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Hellgrammite
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Posted on 6/22/17 at 5:09 pm to The Last Coco
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Definitely a water tiger, but I'm about 99% sure they can't sting. Likely just got pinched which I'm sure hurt like crazy. They are a particularly aggressive invertebrate.
He probably did just get bitten. Stung is the word my buddy used. I saw the pictures of his child's (6yo) hand and it was significantly swollen. He couldn't make a fist. He's ok now after antibiotics and steroids. No one had any idea what it was but after looking up the water tiger, it is absolutely what it was.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 8:14 pm to rwill94
Definite water tiger. Hellgramites are much thicker and live under rocks in more fast flowing clear water
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