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["Michael Shapiro" <sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

     I forgot to mention that they had segmented bodies. I've seen leeches
in the lake and had one or two on me. One of the other reasons I had thought
they were dragonfly larvae was I had thought the "attachments" on the
abdomen they use to attach to a leaf or stalk looked like something similar
I thought I had seen in a picture of a dragonfly larva. They seemed like
three stubby little joints arranged in a triangle and stuck out directly
form the creatures abdomen (and if it was the abdomen they stuck out from,
then they were swimming backwards, as they swam with the appendages leading
the way, accordion-style). They looked somewhat similar to Monarch Butterfly
caterpillars in the way they were banded and segmented, but as I said, they
were black and white, legless, and didn't move like caterpillars. Anyone
know what other invertebrates are aquatic, or start out as aquatic? Anyone
know a website I might be able to look on?

Michael



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