| A male water strider can dislodge the sperm of the previous male and thus tries to mate with many females. |
| The Defender Snake is an anti-tank strider designed to have great mobility and mind blowing range. |
| He is a coauthor with Sih of a widely cited 2005 paper on water strider groups. |
| Importantly, sexual selection favors apterous males in several natural populations of a water strider species. |
| I approached it again, this time dimpling the water with a stick, and the strider burst into a long run of skips like a skimming stone. |
| I can't fall back into unconsciousness, like a water strider held aloft on the surface tension of her beautiful stillness. |
