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bonitin wrote:
Popular English name is backswimmer.
Since my fishes are gone from my pond (I suspect a heron), the water got crystal clear and interesting water bugs that probably didn't make a chance when they were still there are making their appearance. This one I fished out and temporarily put in a glass salad bowl to have a better chance to make its picture.

I only found a Belgian site for it:
http://www.faune-flore.be/animaux_belgique/identification_in...


It swims upside down and backwards;