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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Aquatic Bugs (Nepomorpha) » Notonectoidea » Backswimmers (Notonectidae) » Notonecta » subgenus Paranecta (Notonecta subgenus Paranecta)
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Backstroke vs. Breaststroke vs. ............ Notonecta undulata? - Notonecta
Copyright © 2021 Bob OBrien

Backstroke vs. Breaststroke vs. ............ Notonecta undulata? - Notonecta
Carver, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
September 21, 2021
Was viewing (thru the camera lens) this BackSwimmer in an irrigation puddle when it suddenly flipped to do the breast stroke. Incredible luck to get both 'strokes'. I was feeling a little too smug as I put the camera down. Whereupon it did the 3rd stroke. The flight stroke. Took wing and departed the puddle. Had I continued to view thru the lens I could have gotten that stroke too. Maybe next time? If I live that long. Quite different from the only image i found for Oregon , although that may be a faded specimen or maybe molt is involved?
(FEEL FREE TO FRASS THE PUDDLE PHOTO IF SO DESIRED)

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Backstroke vs. Breaststroke vs. ............ Notonecta undulata? - Notonecta Backstroke vs. Breaststroke vs. ............ Notonecta undulata? - Notonecta Backstroke vs. Breaststroke vs. ............ Notonecta undulata? - Notonecta Backstroke vs. Breaststroke vs. ............ Notonecta undulata? - Notonecta Backstroke vs. Breaststroke vs. ............ Notonecta undulata? - Notonecta
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Contributed by Bob OBrien on 22 September, 2021 - 8:16pm
Last updated 15 November, 2023 - 7:02pm

Another image
I improved some of the images here and uploaded an additional one. The same insect.
… Bob OBrien, 5 February, 2022 - 12:20am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Matthew Pintar, 23 September, 2021 - 5:37pm login or register to post comments

A shield?
Knowing nothing of insects, I can't help but notice the similarity of the 'shield' to . Just a coicidence? Convergent evolution? Or?
… Bob OBrien, 22 September, 2021 - 8:25pm login or register to post comments

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