Lesser Water Boatman Corixa punctata Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera (bugs)	These creatures are powerful swimmers. They can also fly! Water Boatmen are "bugs". Bugs are a type of insect. Bugs have a piercing and sucking mouth tube.
	Habitat	Water Boatmen live in freshwater ponds and lakes.
	Moving around	Lesser Water Boatmen use their powerful back legs, like paddles, to power themselves along through the water. Unlike the Greater Water Boatman, they do not swim upside-down.
	Feeding	They eat: algae and dead plant material (detritus) from the bottom of ponds and lakes. They suck up food using their proboscis (tube-like mouth part) like a vacuum cleaner. They are eaten by: fish, newts and ducks.
	Reproduction Young larva of Lesser Water Boatman	The eggs are laid singly attached to the stems of plants or fixed to the threads of floating algae. The larvae gradually grow, shedding their outer coating, during incomplete metamorphosis. Older larva of Lesser Water Boatman (actual size is 2 mm)
	Breathing	When they are larvae, they breathe through their outer coating.
	Size	Both Greater and Lesser Water Boatmen can grow up to 16 mm in length.
	Fun Fact	Lesser Water Boatmen are different to Greater Water Boatmen in 2 main ways: they are herbivores, and they don't swim upside-down.