Backswimmer (za) (5/5)

Hemiptera: Notonectidae

Notonectidae sp  

Backswimmers breathe underwater from a captured air-bubble. Here a Backswimmer is at the water surface taking aboard air at the end of its abdomen.

Backswimmers can fly, enabling them to easily travel to new ponds and wetlands.*

*Gooderham, John and Tsyrlin, Edward (2002). The Waterbug Book. CSIRO Publishing, p.157.