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Backswimmer - Notonecta
Copyright © 2006 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Backswimmer - Notonecta
Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
July 7, 2006
These are inhabiting a friends swimming pool.
My question (and hers) is why, what do they find to eat?
There is a pond near by.
Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 7 July, 2006 - 11:42am

More info here
See note on swimming pool at end of text.
http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/hemipt/Notonectid.htm
… Ron Hemberger, 12 March, 2007 - 1:10am

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