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This is my 5 year old daughter on her strider bmx bike. She races at seatac bmx, just outside of Seattle WA. Addie has a prosthetic leg but it doesn't stop her from racing or riding her skateboard, cool huh? She's riding her 2 wheeler and will graduate to a larger racing bike later in the season.
Merseyside Transport set up a low cost unit in the early 90s based on Speke depot to the south of the city. The initial fleet comprised of Willowbrook and East Lancs bodied Atlanteans drafted in from the in fleet but new vehicles would soon arrive in the form of three Alexander Strider bodied Volvo B10Bs.
MTL had allready started to take large numbers of Wright Endurance bodied B10Bs and it was this combination that became standard. The three Striders would remain unique in the fleet but the trio led full working lives right through the Arriva years that would follow and after withdrawl at least one would become a trainer.
Water striders consume their prey by piercing the prey's body with their beak and sucking out the haemolymph (the equivalent to blood found in many invertebrates).
Video by Chris Boccia
This is alive and on water. Most striders run away but some seem to rely on staying very still to avoid detection, even when there's a massive great camera and flash right in their face.
This is a picture of Common Water Strider At South River Farms Park in Edgewater, Maryland.
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South River Quad
Male water striders often "mate guard" by holding on to females for prolonged periods of time. Females, on the other hand, often try to prevent this because having a male attached makes them more vulnerable to predators.
Video by Chris Boccia
Water striders generally feed on arthropods (such as this insect) that fall on to the water's surface and get stranded. They frequently feed on mosquito larvae.
Video by Chris Boccia
Spring has come to my pond, with hundreds of tiny water striders, plus quite a lot of mating damselflies. This one was very small, its body length was perhaps a couple of mm.
Photomontage:
Blue natural pond picture by me.
Water strider insect by the net.
Digital painting, collage and final processing by me.
Textures by me & Ghostbones.
You can watch a humble video of this marvellous place in Krabi here and listen to the jungle natural sounds.
Hope you enjoy it.
The smaller Strider here is based on someone else's work (their original is on the far left) I don't remember their name unfortunately, but it was real fun to figure out how it all went together. The Big red boy on the right is my own. Two turreted weapons– large gatling gun on the left (the barrels actually rotate!!!) and a gauss cannon on the right– which lower and fold into the back of the Strider. I'm going to order the parts for the two of these from LEGO and pit them against each other in an MFØ battle.