shore bug

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Related to shore bug: Tingidae, Gerridae, Miridae, Anthocoridae, Nabidae, Mesoveliidae

shore bug

Any of various small agile predatory insects of the family Saldidae, found along the shores of streams and ponds.

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The shore bugs (Hemiptera: Saldidae) of the Great Lakes Region.

Randall Tobias Schuh: a celebration of his career and accomplishments on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Examples of very different overwintering strategies include some corixids (water boatmen) that overwinter in air bubbles in ice, some Pleidae (pygmy backswimmers) that switch to plastron respiration to overwinter on the bottom of ponds, some ochterids (velvety shore bugs) that overwinter as nymphs on moss on soil, some hydrometrids (marsh treaders) that overwinter as adults on land far from water, and some veliids (broad-shouldered water striders) that are active in the warmer days in winter.

Saulich, A. H., and D. L. Musolin. 2007. Seasonal Development of Aquatic and Semiaquatic True Bugs (Heteroptera)

Toby received his Master's Degree at Michigan State University and wrote his thesis on the shore bugs (Hemiptera: Saldidae) of the Great Lakes region in 1967.