Cedar Creek
Natural History Area
Insects of Cedar Creek
Order HEMIPTERA
Family PLEIDAE
(Pigmy Backswimmers)
(Table of Species)
I have seen the Pygmy Back Swimmer,
Neoplea striola
, while sampling for dragonfly larvae from the Area's ponds in the 1970's, but apparently I neglected to keep any. Numerous specimens collected in July of 1998.
jhaar@lter.umn.edu
Last updated May, 2000
