Have you ever seen a water strider? Well they are insects found in creeks and ponds that seem to walk on water. But do they really? Watch this video and find out how they get about. Then tell me what you know about water striders and what you think about the video.
Water Strider
They don't really walk on water.They just skim across it.Gecio's can do this too.
ReplyDeleteOlivia Gundrum
ya i have them in my pond
ReplyDeleteYes i have seen a water strider before.They don't really walk on water they row across the water.
ReplyDeletewater striders must be fast but thay look cool
ReplyDeleteNO but they row in the water like a boat
ReplyDeleteNo, i never saw one before. I'm not sure if they do walk on the water.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen one ever.
ReplyDeleteYes i have. I see them all the time on the water and yes it does look like it walks on water.:)
ReplyDeleteYes i have them on my pond and see them everyday once it starts to get darker out. The fish like to eat them.
ReplyDeleteI have at my uncles lakes
ReplyDeleteno i have never seen a water strider.
ReplyDeletejordan iori:)
not sure about the lizard now tht i think of it
ReplyDeleteolivia gundrum
ya thay are at my lake house that shoot acrost the water
ReplyDeleteYes,they can walk on water, legs thin as hair and there legs are 7 cm long.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen one):....and what i saw in this video is that the water striders row more than walk one water.
ReplyDeleteI don`t think that I have ever seen a water strider but the look kinda cool how they just float along water but i read that they dont really stride the row. I think that since they are so small and so lite that they can just float.
ReplyDeleteNo they dont walk they they pattle like row boat
ReplyDeleteI've seen water striders before in the creek behind my house. It really does look like they walk on water, but they use there legs to paddle and the row across the water.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have seen a water strider. I see a lot of them at my friend's house(her family owns part of a lake/pond)and we both agreed that they LOOKED like they walk on water, but the water striders really do kind of a rowing motion.
ReplyDeleteThey can stand on water yes but walk I dont think so they row more then anything.
ReplyDeleteI see water striders all the time when i go fishing they are a lot smalLer in reAl life and faster! if you look close they row there arms to move.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if I have ever seen a water strider but, after watching the video I now know that they row, not walk. This is possible because their legs. They "generate a vortex with every stroke to move." They also are so light so the water acts like a trampoline to them.
ReplyDeleteI see tons of water striders in Missouri at Mermec Lake...I think that's what it's called.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your the first qeustion yes i have seen a water strider, there in my creek at the bottom of my hill. As for your seconnd question no they dont walk on water they just row across it. Because even though they should be terrible rowers because there legs are so small but in truth they create vortexs behind them with there leg to push them forward.
ReplyDeleteI have seen them before but i thought that they floted but instead they really row there legs to move and stay above the water. They lived in my nebros pond and so my 3 older brothers tried to catch them but they went to fast and so when they did catch them they let them go cause they tried to jump out of the continer
ReplyDeleteI think I might have seen them walking across my pool but im not sure
ReplyDeleteYes I have seen a water strider before. No water striders do not walk on water what they do is glid acrost the water. They use there lags to push off but there lags are as small as a hair so it takes more presher to push off. They can go up to ten times there body. They water strider is vary differnt than othere insects.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know more about water stridders and how they apperently row?
ReplyDeletei have never seen a water strider before.No they do not really walk on water.I thought the video was cool
ReplyDeleteI have seen a water strider. On a creek and a pond. They do not because thir front legs are like padels. Thir legs are like a hair diemer.
ReplyDeleteErin Pegg
yes i see them in the lake. they do not walk they row. so they can go 15 times its body. their legs are like ors they use them to push and pull the water
ReplyDeleteWater strders are cool but when they move they can be eatinen by other animals on ffish that are hungery, they are fun to wath swim and fun tosee them in the jumping.
ReplyDeleteI always see water striders when im in my creek. They float on top of the water and when they move they skim across the water.
ReplyDeleteI have seen a water strider. On a creek and a pond. They do not because their front legs are like paddles. Their legs are like a hair diameter.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen a water strider before. But I know from the video that water striders do not really walk on water. Instead, water striders row on water. The water striders’ legs are about a hair length in diameter. The woman in the video says that water striders should be terrible at rowing; because it would be like kayaking with a twig. Yet they can glide their body lengths in just one stroke. They generate a vortex with each stroke. Furthermore, they take the vortex and push it behind them, causing them to glide forward. They use the ability of they water surface as a trampoline. This is how they move in water.
ReplyDelete@ Jenny Keyser
ReplyDeleteIt’s cool that you have seen a water strider. From the video it does look like they are walking, I agree. But after the video, I kind of saw them rowing instead of walking.
@ Hannah Basil
ReplyDeleteI agree, since their legs are the diameter of hair and lighter than a feather, that must be why they float. Good inference. =)
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ReplyDeleteNo I do not think I have ever seen a water strider before.I know that water striders do not walk on water they row on the water.And the video tells you alot about water striders and yeah the video is ok.
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