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    Is this a Great Diving Beetle?

    • 17-08-2015 10:42PM
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      BrianD3
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      I think it is. Found it in the porch of the house - big fella. If anyone else in the house sees him I expect screams of THERE'S A COCKROACH IN THE HOUSE!

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    • #2
      axe2grind
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      it is :)


    • #3
      St. Leibowitz
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      It's a good diving beetle, not a great diving beetle (with apologies to Eamonn Dunphy)


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      Capercaillie
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      Find a nearby pond and release it.


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      ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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      Capercaillie wrote: »
      Find a nearby pond and release it.

      It will fly to a pond itself.


    • #6
      baaba maal
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      St. Leibowitz wrote: »
      It's a good diving beetle, not a great diving beetle (with apologies to Eamonn Dunphy)

      Without doubt the post of the day for me!

      Class.

      On a related note, I dug a pond a couple of years ago. I'm fortunate enough to live beside a lot of rough ground/abandoned cutaway bog. I placed the butyl rubber into the pond space, put the hose in and went back to the house to turn the tap on. By the time I got back to the pond, there were these distinct "clicks"-of course, when I got nearer, it was beetles of all descriptions hearing the sound of running water smacking off the pondliner. Unreal example (to me) of nature filling a niche that was just created.


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