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- cosmopolitan family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly called backswimmers because they swim "upside down" (inverted). They are all predators and...
- Either the pygmy backswimmers are united with the Helotrephidae in the superfamily Pleoidea, or these two and the true backswimmers are placed in a single...
- like other backswimmers, by surface waves. Lang (1979), completed an experiment that showed that waves that were created by other backswimmers swimming...
- including such insects as giant water bugs, creeping water bugs and backswimmers Various other aquatic true bugs, known collectively as water bugs Heteroptera...
- legs. Water boatman have highly modified front legs whereas backswimmers do not. Backswimmers are distributed across a broad range throughout North America...
- Family Notonectidaebackswimmers Note: sometimes included in Notonectoidea Family Helotrephidae Family Pleidaepygmy backswimmers Wikimedia Commons has...
- some are found in freshwater habitats. These include the water boatmen, backswimmers, pond skaters, and giant water bugs. Hemiptera belong to the insect superorder...
- Notonecta kirbyi, or Kirby's backswimmer, is a species of backswimmer in the family Notonectidae. It is found in North America. "Notonecta kirbyi Report"...
- The backswimmer Notonecta glauca underwater, showing its paddle-like hindleg adaptation...
- and ponds, as well as some household pools. Unlike their relatives the backswimmers (Notonectidae), who swim upside down, Corixidae swim right side up. It...