How To Use water strider In A Sentence
- Water striders are covered stem to stem and toe to toe with a layer of tiny, waxy, feathery hairs in which countless minuscule air bubbles are trapped.
- The water striders have "unwettable" hairs on their tarsi that do not break the surface tension of the water, so the bugs can walk on top of it. Insecta (Aquatic)
- 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.
- Water strider is a kind of insect that has the active function of staying, sliding and leaping on water surface.
- Importantly, sexual selection favors apterous males in several natural populations of a water strider species.
- The water strider's hairy legs work to keep it afloat.