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Common backswimmer

Notonecta

Photo by nrvero
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Field Notes

Notes:

The wind blew over our pool cover while we went away and we came back to find the water green and inhabited by all sorts of insects and thousands of mosquito larvae.
Among them, this impressive Notonecta (not sure of the sub-spec. though) that looks like an Alien.

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