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Back Swimmer

Photo by AshleyAkers
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Field Notes

Description:

Small dark water beetle of some kind.

Notes:

Found floating in a mud puddle along a fourwheeler trail.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Aonach_Eagach
Looks like a water boatman (called back-swimmers in the US 1 think) of the family Corixidae
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PublishedJuly 5, 2011

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