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  • 1ADAM12
    Should I Jump?????????????
    • Sep 2006
    • 356
    #1

    Water Strider

    Does anyone have any expierence shooting these magnificent creatures? I ended up killing a deer fly that was buzzing my head and it landed in the water. I noticed a water strider came out of his little cave and started eating it. So I had to take a picture. What do you think?


    By morrell12, shot with FinePix E500
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    • pico23
      Member
      • Dec 2005
      • 727
      #2
      didn't know these were called waters striders but I never thought to shoot these guys...moving insects would drive me nuts. I've given up on dragon flies and bees on flowers too. It drives me nuts to see people go out for a day and get 10 nice bees on flower shots, or a half dozen dragon flies, and I can barely get 1 per year.
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        • 1ADAM12
          Should I Jump?????????????
          • Sep 2006
          • 356
          #3
          At least the striders move slow It took like 6 pictures to get one I liked and I don't even have a great camera

          So what do you call them?

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            • Adk Keith
              Telemarker
              • Apr 2004
              • 808
              #4
              A friend of mine calls them Jesus bugs, because they walk on water.
              'I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.' - Henry David Thoreau

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                • Hobbitling
                  spring fever
                  • May 2006
                  • 2237
                  #5
                  never knew they were carnivorous. cool shot.
                  He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

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                    • serotonin
                      ember
                      • Oct 2004
                      • 2397
                      #6
                      They're really aggressive, and the Trout don't seem to like them too much.
                      I'm told that they taste rather nasty.

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