Water bug: common backswimmer: water boatman
This specimen was collected by Philip le Hardy de la Garde in October 1910 at a pond in Colesborne, Cheltenham. Backswimmers are voracious predators and will attack small fish, tadpoles ... and fingers!
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 890/1913/706
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- de la Garde, Mr Philip Le Hardy (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- water bug: common backswimmer: water boatman
- Simple Name
- Insect: water bug
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914)
