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Water Striders

This is one of two water striders that I caught on the little stream that runs alongside of our road. They are normally almost impossible to catch, but I spotted a pair that was mating. They were moving pretty slowly, and I was able to corner them up against some rocks and nudge them into my collecting jar. They unfortunately stopped mating by the time I got them home, so I couldn’t get a picture of them both at once.

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