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	Minibeast Profile No. 14: Aquatic Insects
		There are insects that live in, on or near both fresh water and saltwater, including some ocean surfaces, salt marshes, salt lakes, mineral springs, thermal pools, puddles, alpine pools, roadside ditches, tree holes, pitcher plant leaves, freshwater marshes, swamps, pond and lakes, underground streams in caves, brooks, creeks, streams and rivers.
		Some of the insect orders are completely aquatic, meaning all members of the order spend at least one of stage of their life in the water.
		Those insects that live near the surface but spend lots of time swimming beneath the surface of the water may use special breathing tubes ("snorkeling") or carry an air bubble trapped around the outside of the body ("scuba diving").
	members.aol.com /YESedu/MBP14.html (1307 words)

	Diving Beetle - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Although most insects are terrestrial or aerial, the great diving beetle has adapted to a freshwater environment.
		A voracious predator, the diving beetle feeds on tadpoles, small fish, and insects and their larvae.
		Not strictly limited to the aquatic environment, diving beetles are capable of flying from one pool to another.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461556977/Diving_Beetle.html (51 words)

	Aquatic Habitats (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Approximately 5% of all insects are able to live in ponds, lakes, rivers and streams, as well as some other not-so-noticeable aquatic habitats such as puddles, barrels, old tires and other water-collecting containers.
		Since insects were originally land dwellers, they had to adapt a new way of life to survive in the water.
		Some insects, such as mosquito larvae and flfly larvae, breathe through slender breathing tubes, or siphons, attached to the tip of their abdomens.
	www.agls.uidaho.edu /ento/SixleggedWonders/insects_of_idaho/aquatic_habitats.htm (245 words)

	Diving
		Diving in the first sense is the act of deliberately entering a body of water by jumping in, with arms pointed out stretched parallel with the straightened legs and torso, in an inverted position to minimise drag against the water.
		Divers are judged on whether they completed all aspects of the dive, the conformance of their body to the requirements of the nominated dive, and the amount of splash created by their entry to the water (less being better).
		One of the chief difficulties in diving is to keep a straight course, because there is seldom anything under water by which to steer.
	www.fact-index.com /d/di/diving.html (1914 words)

	westfly--Hidden Adults
		Because the phrase "insects that lay their eggs by swimming or crawling down rocks or logs to the substrate" is unwiedly, the shorter, if less accurate, term "diving insects" is used here.
		Many species of aquatic insects lay their eggs underwater, but there are three genera of "diving" genera that Western anglers should take special note of: the blue-winged olive (Baetis) mayfly, saddle-case caddis (Glossossoma), and the spotted caddis (Hydropsyche).
		The fly should be fished near the bottom or have the "plop" effect of a natural insect diving through the surface.
	www.westfly.com /feature/0112/feature_646.htm (601 words)

	Wildlife at the Refuge
		They can be seen swooping and diving for insects; their wide mouths have feathery "whiskers" on the sides that help keep insects from escaping.
		These salamanders feed on insects, crustaceans, worms, and snails and are preyed upon by birds, fish, snakes, and mammals while their eggs are used as food by aquatic invertebrates.
		This large insect, 2 to 4 inches long, has a pair of wings that are straight and narrow and a second pair of wings that fold and open like a fan.
	www.pmrma.army.mil /refuge/wildrma.html (9847 words)

	News in Science - Oxygen tanks keep insects afloat - 11/05/2006
		Backswimmers are diving insects that use their broad, oar-like legs to swim on their backs.
		They found that the insect uses a strategy much like a diver with a buoyancy vest to control the depth at which he or she hovers in the water.
		Backswimmers, found the world over, are the only insects to inhabit the mid-water zone as adults, and the only ones to possess haemoglobin throughout their entire life, a link that may be explained by the new findings.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/2006/1633284.htm (403 words)

	Nuisance Aquatic Insects, HYG-2037-95
		Since many nuisance aquatic insects are attracted to mercury vapor lights, it is important to use lights sparingly in and around the swimming pool and other areas where insects are not wanted.
		Insects are cold-blooded and they see and respond best to ultraviolet energy mercury vapor light.
		Collect and discard dead, dying and stunned insects with a broom and dust pan, vacuum cleaner, etc. Shrubs and bushes away from the swimming pool can be sprayed lightly with resmethrin plus piperonyl butoxide a few hours before any recreational event to reduce nuisance insects.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/2000/2037.html (2007 words)

	Elkhorn Slough
		The arthropods that are not insects include millipedes, centipedes, arachnids (spiders and ticks), and crustaceans (crabs, shrimp, sow bugs).
		Insects are abundant in most habitats, including in terrestrial, freshwater, and brackish water environments and can be found in extreme environments such as hot, dry deserts or well above timberline at high elevation.
		Insects you are more likely to see here include the spittlebug (nymphs of small, drab insects called "froghoppers") living hidden in the middle of protective globs of foam, and the big fl shiny stink beetle lumbering along in open dry areas.
	www.elkhornslough.org /newspages/insects.htm (620 words)

	Sunburst Diving Beetle
		These diving beetles are active year round; central to their activity is the presence of a water source.
		These diving beetles are usually ready to breed a few weeks after emerging from the pupae.
		Sunburst Diving Beetles can live in tap water provided the water has had time to sit and "age." Several rocks or other types of perches should be kept in the cage for the beetles to climb up on if the need arises.
	www.insecthobbyist.com /articles/InsectHobbyist/DivingBeetle.html (656 words)

	Diving
		Diving in the first sense is the act of deliberately entering a body of water by jumping in, with arms pointed out stretched parallel with the straightened legs and torso, in an inverted position to minimise drag against the water.
		Divers are judged on whether they completed all aspects of the dive, the conformance of their body to the requirements of the nominated dive, and the amount of splash created by their entry to the water (less being better).
		In short, scuba diving is an underwater activity practiced with the help of a system or an apparatus (usually a tank and air pressure regulator) able to provide a reserve of gas (usually air) in order to allow the diver to breathe air during the immersion.
	www.websters-dictionary-online.net /Di/Diving.html (6926 words)

	Biting Insects &Illnesses Caused By Insects
		Most of the time these insects are just a nuisance, but there are definite dangers involved with the mosquito.
		These insects are invisible to humans until their abdomens turn red with blood.
		Also called sand flies, no-see-ums, punkies, and flying teeth, these insects bite with scissor-like mouth parts that introduce anti-coagulants that cause the stinging and itching.
	www.scuba-doc.com /insects.htm (951 words)

	Australian Museum - Wild Kids - Freshwater - Diving Beetle
		Adult diving beetles often fly from one pond to another.
		Diving beetles have a streamlined shape, a pair of thin antennae and three pairs of legs.
		Diving beetles live in ponds, lakes, billabongs and slow-running streams.
	www.amonline.net.au /wild_kids/freshwater/diving_beetle.htm (236 words)

	Bahamas Diving Association: Official Dive Association for the Islands of The Bahamas
		For liveaboards, this means you take your clothes and dive gear out of your bag once and not have to repack until the end of your trip.
		The average is typically four or five dives per day, but it's really up to the individual diver (given proper surface intervals, of course).
		One of the most significant is the sheer range of dive options available to the liveaboard that are simply beyond the reach of day boats.
	www.bahamasdiving.com /6729/with_flash/html/liveaboards.html (803 words)

	Royal Alberta Museum: Invertebrate Zoology - Bug Facts - Giant Diving Beetle & Water Tiger
		Most species of predacious diving beetles are dark brown or fl, often with a lighter brown or reddish brown border, and some having a lighter band across the back near the hind end.
		In the case of predacious diving beetles it is a closely related family that must be discussed.
		They also swim by moving their hind legs alternately as opposed to simultaneously the way the predacious diving beetles do, and they come to the surface for air by sticking the head out, not the back end.
	www.royalalbertamuseum.ca /natural/insects/bugsfaq/diving.htm (693 words)

	World wide, there are 10 orders and about 30,000 species of insects that are found associated with water in some life ...
		Many "aquatic insects" are associated with the water's edge or surface and seldom face the challenges of being submerged and getting oxygen.
		One of the most common examples of an insect associated with the water surface is the water strider that does not break the water's surface as it skates on top of the water found in streams, rivers, and ponds and, even the ocean!
		This is termed "cuticular respiration" and often insects and heir larvae have special areas of their exoskeleton that allow diffusion.
	www.unk.edu /acad/biology/hoback/marineinsects/freshwater.html (492 words)

	PRBO Conservation Science: Diving Duck trends
		Diving ducks include medium to large-sized waterbirds with beaks adapted for catching fish or benthic invertebrates and feet placed at the back of their bodies for better propulsion underwater.
		Dives for aquatic insects, fish, mollusks, and crustaceans in shallow water.
		The smallest diving duck, the attractive breeding male bufflehead is fl and white with a large white patch on its head.
	www.prbo.org /cms/index.php?mid=368 (1585 words)

	University of Kentucky Entomology Youth Resources - Teaching Resources, Middle & High School
		Collected and killed insects need to be pinned through their thorax, a little to the right of the midline.
		Insects should then be placed in a sealed box, such as a cigar box or tight-fitting shoe box.
		Insects range in size from larger than the smallest mammals to small enough to crawl through the eye of a needle.
	www.uky.edu /Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/bugconnection/teaching/sixscience.htm (3357 words)

	Insects - photo.net
		The most brilliantly painted insects are the butterflies and moths, some quite tiny and obscure, others true giants of the insect kingdom, dazzlingly crowned in gold and jewel-like colors.
		The army ants' jaws are so powerful that Indians once used them to suture wounds: the tenacious insect was held over a wound and its body squeezed so that its jaws instinctively shut, clamping the flesh together.
		The most amazing migration--unsurpassed by any other insect in the Neotropics--is that of the kitelike uranidae (this fl and iridescent green species is actually a moth that mimics the swallowtail butterfly), in which millions of individuals pass through Costa Rica heading south from Honduras to Colombia.
	photo.net /travel/cr/moon/insects (1437 words)

	Scuba Diving - The Magazine Divers Trust
		Also, the diving that I'm doing this month is a study of contrasts, from cold northern freshwater lakes to warm tropical ocean diving, which raises an interesting issue about the philosophy of diving that I would like to raise: why do we dive?!
		I have dived in places where the visibility was literally zero and we were "braille" diving, where everything was done by feeling our way around.
		I got in five dives in Lake of the Woods and Gordon Lake, a deep clear lake further to the north and east.
	dive.scubadiving.com /members/tripreports.php?s=859 (1513 words)

	ENJOY PERU - ENTOMOLOGY IN PERU - NATURE
		The Amazon region has the largest number of insects, due to the megadiversity of its flora, and its intense humidity, making it the the perfect habitat for these tiny beings that are of such great importance for the ecosystem.
		However these tiny insects are not just native to the jungle, but can also be found in the river crossed desert coast of Peru, principally in the hillocks found in the Lachay National Park, to the north of Lima.
		As a result of evolution, these insects lost their wings due to having to adapt to the climactic conditions of the region.
	www.enjoyperu.com /peru_travel_tours_information/peru_nature_ecology_biodiversity/peru_nature_ecology_biodiversity_entomology_entomology.html (645 words)

	Insect Books and Field Guides - study of arthropods
		We've divided the books into four pages: Insects other than Butterflies (where you are now), Butterflies and Moths, Spiders, and Activities.
		From huge hairy spiders to spindly stick insects, there are around 100 bugs just waiting to be found on every double page.
		Teaches the parts of the insects and the many science projects include such subjects as feeding, metamorphosis, insect architecture, moths in the night, and building your own ant colony.
	www.eduresources.net /life/arthropod/bla10.htm (578 words)

	Complex Medium: In defense of whimsy
		Diving insects called backswimmers have the unique ability to hover in the mid-water zone of lakes and rivers without actually swimming.
		Other aquatic insects remain at shallow depths because the air bubble diminishes in size due to oxygen uptake and diffusion of other gases.
		The insect circulatory system, however, does not use hemoglobin to carry oxygen, and backswimmers are the only insects to have hemoglobin throughout their whole lives.
	complexmedium.blogspot.com /2006/05/in-defense-of-whimsy.html (437 words)

	Robyn's Aquatic Insect Page
		I will eventually (hopefully) be able to divide up these insect pages into their own subdirectory with more detailed sections on each kind of aquatic insect and also more on terrestrial insects.
		Insect drawings - line drawings of various insect larvae including dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies, mosquitoes, stoneflies, a few beetles, and more.
		I tried to do some research on insect larvae to see what it is but to no could find almost no pictures of larvae that I could use for ID. The larvae are only about 1/8" long and "swim" in the water by wiggling their bodies.
	www.fishpondinfo.com /bugs.htm (1369 words)

	Entonotes5.html
		Also needed are items for transferring and preserving specimens collected from the pan such as, forceps for grasping larger insects, eye droppers for "sucking" up very small individuals, and some small bottles filled with rubbing alcohol to kill and preserve captured material.
		Both insects have powerful front legs modified for grasping; the legs close like pincers and each is tipped with a curved hook shaped claw.
		Countless more insects and other creatures too could be added, each with its own fascinating story to tell.
	insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu /MES/notes/entonotes5.html (1111 words)

	Insects in Kansas
		Insects who with complete metamorphosis include: Beetles, butterflies, moths, scorpionflies, fleas, true flies, caddisflies, thrips, lacewings, antlions, bees, wasps and ants.
		Insects with gradual metamorphosis include: true bugs, roaches, cicadas, leafhoppers, lice, termites, mantids, earwigs, crickets, grasshoppers and walking sticks.
		Insects are the most successful type of creature on Earth.
	www.gpnc.org /insects.htm (648 words)

	Belize Attractions, Suggested Itineraries, Tours & day trip, Things to do, Sightseeing, diving, scuba, snorkeling, ...
		Numerous dive shops can arrange trips, highly recommended is Hol Chan Marine Reserve, a popular five square-mile underwater park accessible only by boat, is located four miles southeast of San Pedro Town on the Belize Barrier Reef and is rich in marine life and coral.
		Night diving is popular to see a variety of nocturnal sea creatures that are completely different than those seen during the day.
		Night time diving is also great fun, you will see many different creatures out and about underwater than you do in the daytime.
	ambergriscaye.com /pages/town/todo.html (5510 words)

	University of Kentucky Entomology for Kids
		Insects are often encountered, at least with a little searching, in homes, yards, around building foundations, basements, crawl spaces, flower or vegetable gardens that are NOT heavily sprayed with pesticides, around lights at night, near streams and lakes, abandoned fields, parks, and forests.
		Dead insects in reasonable condition (for collections) can often be found on windowsills, car grilles, roadsides and walking paths.
		Some insects are very sedentary and are easy to catch with a pair of tweezers.
	www.uky.edu /Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/bugfun/collecti.htm (900 words)

	Beetles and other insects
		In the suite of armour there are just a few openings allowing the animal to live: the mouth, through which food is absorbed, the excretion hole at the back to get rid of useless stuff and the trachea, very small openings, usually on both sides through which air is inhaled.
		Like in birds, an insect is suppose to be born once crawling out of its egg.
		So we have to measure an insects life span by measuring how long it lives from the moment it crawls out of the egg to the moment it actually dies.
	www.gardensafari.net /english/beetles.htm (1795 words)

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