Sentence examples for a water strider from inspiring English sources
A water strider skates upon the brook.
Brownie tells her that he swallowed a water strider, but she ignores him.
I was afraid of bringing a water strider up to my lips.
I can't fall back into unconsciousness, like a water strider held aloft on the surface tension of her beautiful stillness.
She reminded him of a water strider that had left the water to scamper about on dry land.
To understand why water bends all the rules, think about how an insect – a water strider, say – can zip along the surface of a pond.
According to the published evidence, most water striders employ the "Direct coercive mating (DC)" strategy exemplified by detailed observations of A. remigis [2]; a male water strider mounts a female and inserts his genitalia forcefully into the female genital tract.
The foreleg joints (B and C in Figure 1A) of a male water strider were modeled as revolute joints, so that joint muscle forces can be cast as joint torques.
An overview of figures found in the literature [6] and direct examination of live specimens drew our attention to an apparently unique water strider species, Gerris gracilicornis.
There were a few water striders and tiny jellyfish here and there, but they were totally overwhelmed by a thick confetti of plastic particles.
In this paper we present a procedure for fabricating biomimetic water strider legs covered with setae using Polycarbonate Track-Etched (PCTE) membranes as templates.
