Peter Clausen
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Here's an action photo of a whirligig beetle I collected this summer. They did really well on fruit flies.
Whirligig Beetle
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Hmmm.... I can see how it got it's common name! You know, I never realized there were so many interesting beetles... and that people actually keep them before I joined here!
ABbuggin
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Hey Peter, do you breed these? I've bred them before and its lots of fun, the larvae are quite interesting looking! Like swimming centipedes lol.
Peter Clausen
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My last one just died. You can read a little bit about how I came to collect them in an upcoming (March, I think) issue of Invertebrates Magazine. Yes, Orin...I'm almost done with that article 
(the first ten pages are always easy...it's just getting it down to a reasonable size that I have trouble with.)
AB...I did find around 20 eggs as I was cleaning out the tank last week. I'm not sure if they'll hatch or not, but I'm crossing my fingers! If you want to see the water beetles in video-clip action, I posted a link a week or two back...here it is again off a new page on my website:
http://bugsincyberspace.com/live_beetle.html
(still working out the "bugs" associated with implementing videos into my site, so if you have an issue, simply refresh the page.)
(the first ten pages are always easy...it's just getting it down to a reasonable size that I have trouble with.)AB...I did find around 20 eggs as I was cleaning out the tank last week. I'm not sure if they'll hatch or not, but I'm crossing my fingers! If you want to see the water beetles in video-clip action, I posted a link a week or two back...here it is again off a new page on my website:
http://bugsincyberspace.com/live_beetle.html
(still working out the "bugs" associated with implementing videos into my site, so if you have an issue, simply refresh the page.)
