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Can anyone ID this pond insect for me?
Peanuts3
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Clearing leaves out of the school pond today I found lots of these.
Does anyone know what they are ? I thought it may be mayfly larvae but don't think so having checked online. Can't seem to find anything to match it when searching.
Thank you for any help.
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I think it's an immature form of one of the Diving beetles, possibly Gt Diving Beetle. They take quite a while to transmogrify in several stages from the larvae to the mature beetle.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It looks like Asellus aquaticus or water hoglouse. Its a bit like an aquatic woodlouse.
Yeah it is a water hoglouse. They arent very pretty creatures but I just leave them.