The UMBS is also home to Michigan's most endangered species and one of the most endangered species in the world : the Hungerford's Crawling Water Beetle.
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A water beetle tweaks his toe causing him to withdraw his legs, and rats rustling about in the rushes force him to seek a safer location.
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Later, recovering on Thomas's boat the Water Beetle, Dresden goes onto the deck to get some air, only to be shot and fall into Lake Michigan.
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Many water beetles carry an air bubble, called the elytra cavity, underneath their abdomens, which provides an air supply, and prevents water from getting into the spiracles.
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The latest firestorm began when the local governor scoffed that speed skating is uninteresting, a bit like watching water beetles flit about the surface of a pond.
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As a boy he took an interest in animals, collecting water beetles and maintaining them in aquariums and was a member of the local natural history society.
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One of the most famous passages comes from the beginning of the book, when the narrator witnesses a frog being drained and devoured by a water beetle.
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As characteristic of all Haliplidae, the hindlegs of Hungerford crawling water beetles have a very distinctive and comparatively large abdominal underside as well as parts of its hindlegs.
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He blames himself for Harry being on the " Water Beetle " when he died and believes he could have done something to stop it had he been there.
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The Van Hetton Creek identifications are significant as they represented a new location beyond those originally identified when the Hungerford's crawling water beetle was categorized as endangered in 1994.
