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Definition of water strider in English: water stridernoun North American A slender predatory bug that moves quickly across the surface film of water, using its front legs for catching prey. Family Gerridae, suborder Heteroptera: Gerris and other genera Also called pond skater or water cricket Example sentencesExamples - She taught them to eat mushed-up fish, and then wild strawberries and water striders.
- One summer day, I spent several idle moments beside a still, shallow creek near my home, trying to goad the water striders there into flying.
- Although no one has carefully studied the biomechanics of water striders, he says that they, too, move by rowing.
- Another aspect of control is to protect natural mosquito predators such as dragonflies, ants, ground beetles, spiders, water striders, frogs and snails.
- A male water strider can dislodge the sperm of the previous male and thus tries to mate with many females.
- Neither above nor below the water, two or three dozen water striders worked an old miracle.
- It also occurs in water striders holding station in the current.
- They found that the water strider's legs are so buoyant, they can support 15 times the insect's weight without it sinking.
- Scientists soon realized that the water strider's hydrophobic legs and undersides, coupled with its small size (typical length is about one centimeter / 0.4 inch), are what keep it from drowning.
- When a female water strider has mated, she rejects all subsequent males, both high and low quality.
- Thus began a sequence of steps that motivated the children to spend the rest of the year seeking information about salamanders, water striders, tadpoles, snakes, algae, plankton, and other unique features of ponds.
- The water strider's hairy legs work to keep it afloat.
- Watch a water strider skitter about in staccato bursts, its middle pair of legs doing the rowing and the hind legs steering, its short forelegs ready for catching prey.
Definition of water strider in US English: water stridernounˈwɔdər North American A slender predatory bug that moves quickly across the surface film of water, using its front legs for catching prey. Family Gerridae, suborder Heteroptera: Gerris and other genera Also called pond skater or water cricket Example sentencesExamples - Scientists soon realized that the water strider's hydrophobic legs and undersides, coupled with its small size (typical length is about one centimeter / 0.4 inch), are what keep it from drowning.
- She taught them to eat mushed-up fish, and then wild strawberries and water striders.
- Neither above nor below the water, two or three dozen water striders worked an old miracle.
- One summer day, I spent several idle moments beside a still, shallow creek near my home, trying to goad the water striders there into flying.
- Watch a water strider skitter about in staccato bursts, its middle pair of legs doing the rowing and the hind legs steering, its short forelegs ready for catching prey.
- Thus began a sequence of steps that motivated the children to spend the rest of the year seeking information about salamanders, water striders, tadpoles, snakes, algae, plankton, and other unique features of ponds.
- The water strider's hairy legs work to keep it afloat.
- A male water strider can dislodge the sperm of the previous male and thus tries to mate with many females.
- When a female water strider has mated, she rejects all subsequent males, both high and low quality.
- It also occurs in water striders holding station in the current.
- Another aspect of control is to protect natural mosquito predators such as dragonflies, ants, ground beetles, spiders, water striders, frogs and snails.
- Although no one has carefully studied the biomechanics of water striders, he says that they, too, move by rowing.
- They found that the water strider's legs are so buoyant, they can support 15 times the insect's weight without it sinking.
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