Seaplane Tonboswarmer

The seaplane tonboswarmer is incapable of flight, and moves more like a pond skater than a dragonfly. Its second pair of wings lay below its body and contact the water, like the pontoons of some kinds of seaplanes. The seaplane tonboswarmer can often be seen sitting on the top of the water's surface, quietly photosynthesizing. On some days, the wind may gently push its body, causing it to drift over the water. If disturbed, the seaplane tonboswarmer vibrates its upper pair of wings as a threat display. If that does not work, it vibrates both pairs of wings to skate away. When it needs to abruptly decrease speed, it dips its tail fin into the water to increase drag.

As it can no longer fly, it can only feed on slarti glasstower fruit when the glasstower is knocked onto its side, such as from something large bumping into it or extreme weather. Flying, being a very strenuous means of movement, cannot efficiently be fueled by photosynthesis. Since its nutrients largely come from photosynthesis, it often stays still. It has also been suggested that it abandoned flight to avoid chromofeefes. Their comparatively motionless adult forms are better at escaping the chromofeefes attention.