Actually, it's native to the Pacific Northwest, eats tadpoles...

They can fly in the adult stage and routinely end up in odd
places....




Tweeters is such a great resource for all sorts of natural science
information.

Mike Patterson, take a bow, IDd my mystery bug. It's not really a
cockroach. It's a waterbug, scientific name

Lethocerus americanus_and hitched a ride up here from Texas. The literature
says it's not a pest, but can bite. I hope it died before it could bite the
girl who took it home with her. I gave her a plastic bag to carry it home in.


Lydia Bishop
Everett, WA


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Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

Scale, nature and our infinite capacity to rationalize
http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/mbalame/archives/003674.html