Subject: Water Boatman, Sigara sp.

Location: Pleasant Creek Wildlife Management Area, West Virginia

Stock Number: 07-25842

Comments: This very large genus boasts some fifty Nearctic species.

The boatman pictured here was photographed at the edge of a stream, but water boatmen are more likely to be found at ponds.

Unlike other True Bugs, the water boatmen have a beak that is broad, unsegmented, and conical in shape.

Identifying water boatmen to species can be a great challenge.