| When a female water strider has mated, she rejects all subsequent males, both high and low quality. |
| 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. |
| A male water strider can dislodge the sperm of the previous male and thus tries to mate with many females. |
| The light from above distorts in the concavities formed at the points on which the strider rests. |
| Some aquatic insects such as the water strider rely on surface tension to walk on water. |
