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Definition of diving beetle in English: diving beetlenoun A predatory water beetle which has fringed back legs for swimming and which stores air under its wing cases while diving. Family Dytiscidae: numerous genera and species, including the great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) Example sentencesExamples - There are some 500 different kinds of predaceous diving beetles in North America, and the largest grow to an inch and a half.
- A pond is a little world in itself, he says, home to a dizzying array of creatures from frogs and newts to water boatmen, diving beetles, dragonflies and damselflies.
- Predatory insects, such as dragonfly nymphs and diving beetles, may help mitigate bullfrog populations.
- Predaceous diving beetles can't eat us - but we can eat them.
- So it's an extraordinary diversity and the diving beetles are just one component.
Definition of diving beetle in US English: diving beetlenoun A predatory water beetle which has fringed back legs for swimming and which stores air under its wing cases while diving. Family Dytiscidae: numerous genera and species, including the great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) Example sentencesExamples - There are some 500 different kinds of predaceous diving beetles in North America, and the largest grow to an inch and a half.
- Predatory insects, such as dragonfly nymphs and diving beetles, may help mitigate bullfrog populations.
- So it's an extraordinary diversity and the diving beetles are just one component.
- Predaceous diving beetles can't eat us - but we can eat them.
- A pond is a little world in itself, he says, home to a dizzying array of creatures from frogs and newts to water boatmen, diving beetles, dragonflies and damselflies.
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