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En una acequia de agua dulce.
Small and beautiful
Water bug (Nepomorpha), about 3 cm in length
Make sure to watch the video, the picture is just there because I needed one.
Upper Sonoran Desert scrubland. Found in a shallow pool in a dry creek bed.
Backswimmer with prey. Backswimmers are predators and attack prey as large as ...
it was swimming upside down. About 20 mm long.
Family
Notonectidae. Aquatic insects that swim ...
Notonectidae is a cosmopolitan family of ...
waits for terrestrial insects to drawn and the attacks them.
Notonectidae, gr. Back swimmers.
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Backswimmers are predators and attack prey as large as tadpoles and small fish, ...
Are designed to swim upside down and as a result are darker on the bottom than ...
Another victim of artificial lighting (and metallic blue paint)? This tiny ...
backswimmers propel themselves upside down. they can pause at any depth by ...