Show diving beetle Is 13 also called the water tiger the predaceous diving beetle and its larvae Is also called tile the witter water tiger the beetles theral them dehes hibernate in the muddy bottoms of 0 streams etc but come out from time to time during the summer they are frequently attracted to bright lights the mature beetles live for a long time an instance is recorded where one was kept alive for three years and a halt half in a glass vessel filled with water and fed morsels of raw meat ineat the females of these beetles deposit their eggs at random in the water their larvae or grubs are known as water tigers on account of their blood bloodthirstiness thirstiness when full grown the larvae leave the water and burrow into the ground and make a round cell within which they undergo their transformation the state lasts three weeks in summer but the larvae which transform in the autumn remain in the state all winter these thebe beetles baloo belong to the largest family of water beetles nearly three hundred north american i being known montreal herald |