The Water Penny Beetle

<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/> <Tab/><Tab/><Tab/>The Water Penny Beetle <Tab/>The insect I'm doing for my project is the Water Penny Beetle. The phylum of this insect is Arthropeda. The class is Insecta, the order is Coleoptera, and the family is …

…water levels or by wasps. Both male and female adult beetles emerge from June to September, mate, and lay eggs immediately. Adults live from 2 days to 1 week and eat little or nothing. <Tab/>Water penny beetles larvae live wherever eggs are deposited and distributed by water flow. They usually adhere to the side or underside of rocks that project from the water in flowing streams, on lake shores, or in rapids.