Backswimmers

Backswimmers are small water insects, up to 2-3 centimeters long, living in different aquatic habitats, including biological pools. As they belong to aquatic cockroaches they are capable of biting, but they do not. There is only one situation when people need to take some care with this animal. That is, when caught with netting. Do not pick up with your fingers! It is best to return the animal to the water without picking it up by hand. A backswimmer can sting like a bee when pressured.

Anyone who is now worried about the backswimmers needs to know something more about these sight hunters who like the transparent water of the biological pool as much it’s owners. There they provide for free a living insurance. Because backswimmers guarantee that a biological pool does not create mosquitoes that could bite.

Backswimmers live a life of always swimming and diving on their back. But the aquatic environment is not the only one where they know how to act. Backswimmers also know to fly and are attracted to water mirrors. Thus, they are often among the first insects to colonize a puddle after rain or a new biological pool. These insects are great hunters of everything that lives underwater. They even attack tadpoles much larger than themselves. But they especially like everything that ends up in the water and cannot escape. Any beetle or fly that mistakenly lands on the surface of the water is welcome prey for the backswimmers.