Beetle (Great Silver Water) The Great Silver Water Beetle is a very rare large aquatic insect that can mainly be found in the Somerset Levels which is a wetland area. It can be found in grazing marshes in still ditches and ‘rhynes’. Rhynes are drainage ditches that help to turn wetland at sea level into useful pasture. datasets have provided data to the NBN Atlas for this species.. Browse the list of datasets and find organisations you can join if you are interested in participating in a survey for species like Hydrophilus piceus (Linnaeus, 1758) UK Beetle Recording. Log in; UK Beetle Recording. Home (main website) Beetles. Beetle families; What are beetles? Beetle morphology; Beetle recording. Submit your records; Schemes; County recorders; Resources. Biographical Dictionary. Great Silver Water Beetle. Images. Description. Distribution (may take a minute to appear) Great silver water beetle larva feeding on wandering pond snail. You are here: Following form my last post, here are the photos from that feeding great silver water beetle. You can really see those asymmetrical mandibles in this close up. Which they use to eat the snail. It would occasionally uncurl to get some air from the surface. The common name of Silver Water Beetles refers to the appearance of the underside which, when submerged, is covered with a layer of air. All swim with alternating leg movements and carry air beneath the elytra which they renew by surfacing head first. Habitat: Diving beetles can be found in almost any freshwater habitat. They are common in temporary pools, wetlands, marshes, ponds and slow sections of flowing waters. Movement: Swimmers using hind legs as oars. Size: Size of the adult diving beetles varies from 2 mm to 45 mm.
One UK BAP species was caught (Segmentina nitida Shining Ram's Horn Great silver water beetle Hydrophilus piceus (Hydrophilidae) Order: Coleoptera. Hydrophilus piceus is a species of beetles in the family Hydrophilidae, the water scavenger beetles. This very large aquatic beetle is found in the Palearctic and is known by the common name great silver water beetle.
Great silver water beetle larva feeding on wandering pond snail. You are here: Following form my last post, here are the photos from that feeding great silver water beetle. You can really see those asymmetrical mandibles in this close up. Which they use to eat the snail. It would occasionally uncurl to get some air from the surface.
Great Silver Water Beetle. species. Accepted. Name authority: UKSI. Establishment means: Native. Overview; Gallery; Names; Classification; Records; Literature Lesser silver water beetles can grow up to 15mm in length and are black in middle list of the Biodiversity: The UK Steering Group Report. Hyman, P. & Parsons, M. (1994): A Review of the Scarce and Threatened Coleoptera of Great Brit-. Hydrochara's closest relative, the great silver water beetle Hydrophilus piceus was also found at three sample plots (SH8, SH9 and CH2). All three of these ditches Lesser silver diving beetle (Hydrochara caraboides), captive, Cheshire, England, UK, July. Great Silver Beetle (Hydrophilus piceus) adult, underwater 11 Jun 2012 Following form my last post, here are the photos from that feeding great silver water beetle Hydrophilidae family of water beetles. There are around 2,000 species in the world, 70 have been recorded in Britain. Noteridae - Burrowing water beetles Key to the larger water beetles (in Dutch but with very useful images and illustrations) Great Diving Beetle. female.
The Great diving beetle is a large and voracious predator of ponds and slow- moving The rain-soaked lands of Britain and Northern Ireland are rich in rivers,