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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.
- and yes those are remnant hair strands blowing off of an apparently freshly-styled barnet and a half highlighted as he strides purposefully into a spring headwind, oblivious to how great he looks sideways.
Perhaps his sister? should have said something.
( Did he offend his rug editor perchance ? - ed )
Welwyn GC, Herts.
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" "Barnet " is a British slang term, referring to "hair" - it derives from the phrase "Barnet Fair" which is old time London rhyming slang for "hair," originating from the famous annual horse fair held in Barnet, Hertfordshire "
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.
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.
Pete Iles descends to the gap on Striding Edge (I) before the final ascent to Helvellyn. The snowy buttresses of Saint Sunday Crag in the background lend an alpine ambience to the traverse.
(Agfachrome 100)
Water striders are found in ponds and slow-moving streams and rivers. They sit on top of the water and move with ease (and with speed, as you can see here!).
What adaptations allow them to move so easily on top of the water? How are they using their legs?
Video by Chris Boccia
Gerridae is a family of true bugs and common name is water striders,water bugs.We can fine Water Striders in any pond, river,lake and waterfalls.It have identified over 1,700 species.
Don't worry, normal collecting will resume soon, I'm moving house at the moment so I don't want anything going missing at the wrong address. In the down time, I've been fiddling with LDD :)
Operated by: Duluth Transit Authority
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Manufacturer: Mobility Ventures
Model: MV-1
Notes:
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STRIDE is the complimentary para-transit service available to persons with cognitive or physical disabilities which prevent them from safely using the fixed-route DTA bus system. DTA STRIDE is one of a few systems which has bought these MV custom vehicles for transporting people using mobility devices.
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