Subject: Crazy looking flying something
Geographic location of the bug: Bellingham washington
Date: 10/24/2017
Time: 12:33 PM EDT
Good day,
I was outside just as it was getting dark and I heard a weird bug flying around. Well it was a big something and then I notice a few more over by the house. It’s fall time here and nights get down to the 40’s.
I am sending a phone I took please feel free to use it.
How you want your letter signed: TJA
Predaceous Diving Beetles
Dear TJA,
These are Predaceous Diving Beetles in the family Dytiscidae, but it is going to take someone with more expertise in the family to provide you with a species identification. Though they are primarily aquatic, as you observed, they are capable of flight. According to BugGuide: “Adults with long hairs on hind tibiae and other modifications for swimming; move their hind legs together like oars, like Backswimmers do.”
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