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Updated: May 23, 2025
It is thought that they attach their eggs to the floating saragassum seaweed. If only we knew the whole life of one of these ocean water striders and all the strange sights it must see, a fairy story indeed would be unfolded to us.
Off went the twelve dimples, marking the aquatic footprints of the trio of striders; and as the bearer of the ant dodged one of its own kind, it was suddenly threatened by a small, jet submarine of a diving beetle.
The dragon fly or mosquito hawk as well as "water tigers," water striders and many kinds of beetles are the natural enemies of mosquitoes and as they never harm our crops we should never harm them. Nearly every living creature has some enemies.
She got up quickly as her stepfather came into the room, and Carter went home, crossing the street with the rather pathetic arrogance of his halting gait, his head held high, tilted a little back, which gave him the expression of looking down on a world of swift striders. He found his mother reading before a low fire. "Well, dearest?" She smiled up at him, yearningly.
Without aid from the wings, however, they would soon be immersed, so the walking is only an illusion. But in our smallest ponds and brooks we may see this miracle taking place almost daily, the feat being accomplished by a very interesting little assemblage of insects, commonly called water skaters or striders.
"This is good," said he, "for the sun to shine on, so that I may be seen from far; but these other matters are good for folk who fight a-horseback or on a wall; we striders have no need of them." Then arose great shouting from the Shepherds, and men stretched out the hand to him and called hail on his valiant heart.
In an instant the water strider pirate of the pond that he is reaches forward his crooked fore legs, and here endeth the career of the unfortunate fly. In the air, in the earth, and below the surface of the water are hundreds of living creatures, but the water striders and their near relatives are unique.
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