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Water Strider

Halobates sericeus

About

The only insect that lives on the open ocean surface. It skates on surface tension hundreds of miles from land, feeding on zooplankton and dead organisms.

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Did You Know?

This is one of the few insect species to have colonized the open ocean, surviving storms by diving just beneath the surface.