A predatory water bug that runs on the surface film of water, related to the pond skater but with shorter legs.
水黾，黾蝽（北美称WATER STRIDER ）
Family Veliidae, suborder Heteroptera: several genera, in particular Velia
North American term water strider
Example sentencesExamples
I'm used to water crickets because I have some in my basement, but not this big.
Every few seconds a water cricket would go up to one of the whirligigs and touch it, causing the beetle to swim away only to be met by another cricket.
I'm too terrified of grasshoppers and water crickets to get near enough to kill them.
Other creatures inhabiting the surface film of bog pools are pond skaters, water measurers and water crickets.
Definition of water cricket in US English:
water cricket
noun
A predatory water bug that runs on the surface film of water, related to the pond skater but with shorter legs; a water strider.
水黾，黾蝽（北美称WATER STRIDER ）
Family Veliidae, suborder Heteroptera: several genera, in particular Velia
Example sentencesExamples
Other creatures inhabiting the surface film of bog pools are pond skaters, water measurers and water crickets.
I'm too terrified of grasshoppers and water crickets to get near enough to kill them.
Every few seconds a water cricket would go up to one of the whirligigs and touch it, causing the beetle to swim away only to be met by another cricket.
I'm used to water crickets because I have some in my basement, but not this big.