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Kōrero: Life in fresh water

Suction cups

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Suction cups

This scanning electron micrograph image shows the underside of the 6-millimetre larva of a net-winged midge. The larva uses the row of six suction cups to hold onto the stream bed, so that the current does not wash it away.

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by Alex Huryn

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Roger Young, Life in fresh water – Freshwater habitats, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/11610/suction-cups (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Roger Young, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.