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Ranatra quadridentata / water scorpion in a trail puddle.
I thought it was a walking stick at first until it went underwater.
This thing can fly too.
A Saguaro National Park employee noted that the small hitchhikers on the body are "the parasitic larval stage of Hydracarina, water mites".
I thought it was a walking stick at first until it went underwater.
This thing can fly too.
A Saguaro National Park employee noted that the small hitchhikers on the body are "the parasitic larval stage of Hydracarina, water mites".