← Back to Directory
πŸ› True Bugs

American Marsh Treader

Hydrometra martini

About

A very thin, elongate bug with a head nearly as long as its thorax. It creeps slowly along floating debris and sphagnum mats at the edges of ponds and marshes.

πŸ’‘

Did You Know?

It moves so slowly and deliberately that it rarely disturbs the water surface, making it nearly invisible to predators.