Waterbug or water bug can refer to any of several things: True bugs * The true water bugs (Nepomorpha), including such insects as giant water bugs, creeping water bugs and backswimmers * Various other aquatic true bugs, known collectively as water bugs *

Heteroptera The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal al ...

Cockroaches * The American cockroach, ''Periplaneta americana'' * The

German cockroach The German cockroach (''Blattella germanica''), colloquially known as the croton bug, is a species of small cockroach, typically about long. In color it varies from tan to almost black, and it has two dark, roughly parallel, streaks on the pro ...

, ''Blattella germanica'' * The Oriental cockroach, ''Blatta orientalis'' Giant Water Bug * Belostomatidae

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