Sentence examples for diving beetle from inspiring English sources

Predaceous diving beetle (family Dytiscidae), also called diving beetle, or true water beetle, any of more than 4,000 species of carnivorous, aquatic beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that prey on organisms ranging from other insects to fish larger than themselves.

Diving beetle larvae pupate in moist ground.

Water boatmen, backswimmers and a large diving beetle can be seen scattering when the ice is tapped.

Clean water ponds are an easy way to support sensitive plants and animals and there are more than 50 threatened species that rely on ponds for survival and are a national priority for conservation under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan BAPP), including the tadpole shrimp, the natterjack toad and the one-grooved diving beetle.

The principal eye E2 of sunburst diving beetle (Thermonectus marmoratus) larvae clearly falls into the rarer category.

Based on this, control parameters have been determined by understating their characteristics through the procedure of comparing produced swimming trajectories according to varying their values to observed motions of the diving beetle.

Diving beetles are not generally considered beneficial because they eat fish and compete with them for food and space without providing them with a major food source.

Diving beetles are oval and flat and range in length from 1.5 mm to more than 35 mm (0.06 to more than 1.4 inches).

Diving beetles are so streamlined that the males of some species have sucker-like cups on the first pair of legs so that they can hold on to the smooth surface of the female during mating.

Furthermore, a six legged underwater robot has been developed by considering structural advantages that diving beetles have for their effective swimming.

Scientists believe this chaotic copulation sparked an evolutionary arms race where some male diving beetles evolved circular suckers on their feet in place of the grooved spatula-shaped structures more commonly found on other beetles.