water beetles
Pond-dwelling six-leggers
Water beetles are aquatic beetles that live in or around freshwater—ponds, streams, and marshes.
The term covers many species across several families, including diving beetles and whirligigs.
Most have adapted legs for swimming and can trap air beneath their wing covers to breathe underwater.
The pond was full of water beetles skimming the surface.
- swimmersThose propelling through water
- pondsSmall freshwater bodies
- whirligigToy that rotates
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
- insectsSix-legged arthropods
life cycle · larval stage · bioindicators · arthropod · rivers · elytra · limnology · aquatic · muddy · scavenger · pond life · reeds · backswimmer · exoskeleton · air bubble · antennae · marsh · submerged
water beetlesdung beetles
Insects that process excrement
scarab beetles · ground beetles · bark beetles · longhorn beetles · weevils
water beetlesdragonflies
Large hovering predatory insects
mayflies · caddisflies · water striders · damselflies · stoneflies
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