Talk:Gerridae

message: I think this is big enough to warrant the removal of the stub notice, so I'm going to do that now. Bloodshedder 17:43, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Removing stub) 

message: The information about Johann Christian Fabricius is from the Gerris page , now merged into water strider. -- JimR 09:10, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fabricius 

message: If so, can we remove the self-link in the article, please? Thanks.
Samsara contrib talk 12:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are all Gerridae water striders? 

message: The only thing this article really talks about is how the water strider is able to move on top of water. There isn't anything about it's life cycle, predatory behavior, etc. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.213.220.62 (talk) 20:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah i'd like to see something about its anatomy. What's with carrying its front two legs at that weird angle like antennae? Or... are those not the front pair?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 19:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more information 

message: Maybe I didn't understand the article properly but I don't see how the animal can move at 1.5 m/s if 0.25 m/s is far faster than it can move it's legs. Is this correct?
Count penta 08:51, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed 

message: This entire section needs some serious help.  First a lot of that information about heptaflouriwhatits and angles and millinewtons went straight over my head.  Plus this article is about the insect, not how to build their legs.  I would suggest seriously cutting down on this section so that experiment results are not included unless they are proven to be very relevant to the insect, and simple enough for people who don't have a graduate degree in fluid mechanics can understand it.  65.167.146.130 (talk) 20:24, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  hydrophobic leg section 

message: I reworked this disaster of an article using available literature. I trimmed down the "Nature of the hydrophobic legs" section which looked like somebody was doing a promotion of their research and added information useful for general public. Improvements are of course welcome (I'm not a native English speaker). --Yerpo (talk) 09:25, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reworked

message: The cited paper in Nature is a rather short article, and so far as I can tell, doesn't disprove a chemical basis for the hydrophobicity of the legs.  Should the corresponding text be edited?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.94.128.120 (talk) 00:38, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cited Nature Paper

message: Spiders also happen to hunt striders, at least these that also can move on water. Further, striders sometimes hide under plants, leading them sometimes to be caught in spiders nets.
No source, since personal observation.--46.142.55.9 (talk) 08:09, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predators 

message: The article on Gerris lacustris, more commonly known as the water strider, is fairly short. It has about a paragraph for each section of physical description, reproduction, food and nutrients, and adaptations. There are few details about the mating behavior of water striders, except for two short sentences near the end. Much more detail can be added about how conflicts over mating lead to an antagonistic coevolution of the two different sexes. Although it is objective and decently written, the article is far from complete; there are only five references listed at the bottom. Njoymusic2 (talk) 19:50, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

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