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The Giant predaceous water beetle


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I'm looking forward to spending a week in Arizona, this August 2008. One of the goals in seeing bugs in the desert is to find water! Last time I was there I did manage to see 3 good-sized species of waterbeetles. I saw the familiar Sunburst Diving beetles and two other inch long species.

 

 

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Nice photo, seem similar to the great diving beetles we have here, or they are the great diving beetles if your in England :lol:

I remember when i was a little kid going to a cathedral school trip once finding massive larvae of them once, all i had was a full pop bottle i soon swigged down in way for the beetles :lol: sadly though was caught by the teacher back at school who forced me to put them in the school pond againt mine, for some reason there was whole lot less wild life in that pond next year :o

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Nice photo, seem similar to the great diving beetles we have here, or they are the great diving beetles if your in England :lol:

I remember when i was a little kid going to a cathedral school trip once finding massive larvae of them once, all i had was a full pop bottle i soon swigged down in way for the beetles :lol: sadly though was caught by the teacher back at school who forced me to put them in the school pond againt mine, for some reason there was whole lot less wild life in that pond next year :o

wow! awesome! you can never get enough of these beetles,in fla we have the smaller cybister sp.which are just as beautiful.thanks for sharing.

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