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Hey Roger,
What do you know about raising aquatic insects in an
aquarium for personal study?
BjR
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 4:54
PM
Subject: Re: Water Scorpion
Andy-
Your description is both vivid and accurate.
Some supplemental taxonomic information is that Water Scorpions belong to
the order of True Bugs (Heteroptera) and the suborder of Aquatic
True Bugs (Nemoptera). The family of Water Scorpions is
(Nepidae). Further, your specimen is likely of genus,
Ranatra.
Roger Rohrbeck
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 8:36
AM
Subject: RE: looking for trip
ideas
Cross a walking stick with a preying mantis (long skinny bug,
with long legs
grouped in the middle, a very long tail, and long
forelegs/mandibles about
2.5-3" overall, but a lot of that length is made
up of very skinny
appendages,) color it the same color as a reed, and
look for it in the
margins of rich lakes (underwater.) If I read
correctly, it breathes by
sticking its tail up in to the surface film.
Eats small nymphs/crustaceans.
I am sure that there is someone out there
that can do the description
better
justice...
Andy
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Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 7:13 PM
To:
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Subject:
RE: looking for trip ideas
Hey Andy,,
What is a water
scorpion?
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