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What do water bugs eat?


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If you mean giant water bugs and their relatives, they eat other insects and small animals in the water. You must always be careful about names, what some people call a water bug might not be what a naturalist calls a water bug. To a naturalist "water bug" means a very specific group of insects, and I am assuming that's the ones you mean.

John Elliott


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