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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. True Bugs
  7. Semiaquatic Bugs

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Semiaquatic Bugs

Gerromorpha

Includes
70 native 9 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Water Striders and Ripple Bugs 58 native
  • Velvet Water Bugs 7 native
  • Mesovelioidea 3 native
  • Hydrometroids 2 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native semiaquatic bugs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • North American Common Water Strider Aquarius remigis 20,610 observations
  • Neogerris hesione 1,626 observations
  • Mulsant's Water Treader Mesovelia mulsanti 1,357 observations
  • Limnoporus canaliculatus 1,174 observations
  • Trepobates subnitidus 1,055 observations
  • Metrobates hesperius 692 observations
  • Aquarius conformis 339 observations
  • Gerris buenoi 68 observations
  • Macrovelia hornii 65 observations
  • Aquarius nebularis 48 observations
  • Trepobates inermis 38 observations
  • Rheumatobates rileyi 36 observations
  • Aquarius amplus 19 observations
  • Water Treaders Mesovelia amoena 18 observations
  • Hawaiian Pond Bug Microvelia vagans 18 observations
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