Notonecta

As I rest poised upon the oars above some submerged shallow, diamonded with ripple-broken sunbeams, the fantastic Notonecta or water-boatman rests upon his oars below, and I see that his proportions anticipated the wherry, as honeycombs antedated the problem of the hexagonal cell.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

Early in March, before the first male canker-moth appears on the elm-tree, the whirlwig beetles have begun to play round the broken edges of the ice, and the caddis-worms to crawl beneath it; and soon come the water-skater _ (Gerris) _ and the water-boatman _ (Notonecta) _.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

The Notonecta, or water boatman, is much like a Tettigonia, but its wings are transparent on the outer half, and its legs are fringed with long hairs, being formed for swimming.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Notonecta undulata Say (Fig. 259) is a common form in New England.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Dytiscus beetle, the veering and tacking of the Notonecta [the water boatman], who, lying on her back, rows with two long oars, while her short forelegs, folded against her chest, wait to grab the coming prey.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

A water-beetle, _Colymbetes_ (?) and _Notonecta, _ abounded in water at 112 degrees, with quantities of dead shells; frogs were very lively, with live shells, at 90 degrees, and with various other water beetles.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Previous research from Blaustein's lab demonstrated that the mosquito, Culiseta longiareolata, chemically detects a voracious predator of its progeny in the water, the backswimmer, Notonecta maculata, and avoids laying eggs where the predator is detected.

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Transact., _ 1855 & 1856), although very elaborate, still leave much to be desired before we can arrive at definite conclusions.] [14: _Corixa femorala_, and _Notonecta uniforciata_, according to MM.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor