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Water Bug - name for a large number of water-living bugs, comprising several families of the order Hemiptera have two pairs of long, slender legs that enable them to move over the surface film of quiet waters, w...
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Sit beside a quiet pool of water and you'll soon see water striders skating as if on ice. The tips of their threadlike legs dent but do not break the water's surface tension.
Some species, like water striders, are capable of walking on the surface of water. Insects are mostly solitary, but some insects, such as certain bees, ants, and termites are social and live in large, well-organized colonies.
American Bitterns prey upon insect, fish, crustaceans, amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals. Preferred insects include dragonflies, water striders, water beetles, and grasshoppers; frequently consumed fish are eels, catfish, pickerel, sunfish, ...
There are around 500 different species of pond skater that are known by a variety of different names including water striders, water bugs, magic bugs, skaters, skimmers, water scooters, water skaters, water skeeters, water skimmers, ...
adult and larvae butterflies and moths, as well as small frogs, molluscs, crustaceans (mostly crayfish) and their own cast skin (Hamilton 1948). Dickerson (1906) also reports on green frogs feeding on fairy shrimp, whirligig bugs, water striders, ...
 See also: Beetle, Spider, Water Bug, Crustacean, Fly
  
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