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Description: | The Great Silver Diving Beetle is Britain's largest water beetle. Its silvery appearance when in water is given by the layer of air that the beetle carries trapped in tiny hairs on its underside and under its wing cases. This allows it to breathe, but it has to return to the surface regularly to renew its air supply. It feeds on decaying plant material as an adult, but as a larva it is carnivorous and feeds on snails. | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.invertebratezoology.20041 | Go to resource |
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