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Description:

Beetle like with a tan underbelly. We flipped it over and it quickly flipped itself back onto its legs. Found in the playground in Calgary. Not sure if it can fly or not.

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PaoloCo
PaoloCo 12 years ago
Water boatman
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ClementDufour
ClementDufour 12 years ago

this is a type of water beetle, looks like the predacious diving beelte. theyre normally aquatic but will fly to new bodies of water.

DarlaTraskMeijer
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DarlaTraskMeijer

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Spotted on Apr 2, 2012
Submitted on Apr 3, 2012

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