{"id":69,"date":"2015-04-14T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2015-04-15T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:19:43","slug":"pond-insects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/pond\/pond-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Pond Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the insects you find in the pond are actually larval (and sometimes pupal) stages of terrestrial ones.\u00a0 Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n

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Dragonflies have a larval stage called a nymph which are actually really amazing hunters.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Mosquitoes<\/a>

Mosquitoes have larval and pupal stages that are aquatic.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Caddisflies also have three stages.\u00a0 The larvae make their own houses. Some make them out of stones, others twigs, and some even leaves.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some insects are aquatic as adults like this water boatman:<\/p>\n

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Some aquatic organisms look like insects but are actually not…like this amphipod:<\/p>\n

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Amphipods are small crustaceans (related to crabs). Their common name is sideswimmer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Many of the insects you find in the pond are actually larval (and sometimes pupal) stages of terrestrial ones.\u00a0 Here are a few examples:                                 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2141,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/154"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}