Luke Massey / 2020VISION / Pond skater (Gerris lacustris) on a pond, Hertfordshire, England, UK, June.

Jan Hamrsky / Water Strider / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) portrait. Europe, August.

Stephen Dalton / Pond skaters (Gerris lacustris) on water surface with dead bee, England, UK

Ingo Arndt / Pond Skater (Gerris sp) using surface tension to walk on water, a true bug of the Heteroptera suborder, Europe

Kim Taylor / Pondskaters + their shadows on the floor of a shallow pool. Surrey, UK (Gerris lacustris)

Kim Taylor / Pondskaters (Gerris lacustris) on the surface of a still pond. Surrey, UK

Luke Massey / 2020VISION / Pond skater (Gerris lacustris) with prey on a pond, Hertfordshire, England, UK, June.

Luke Massey / 2020VISION / Pond skater (Gerris lacustris) with prey on a pond, Hertfordshire, England, UK, June.

Luke Massey / 2020VISION / Pond skater (Gerris lacustris) with prey on a pond, Hertfordshire, England, UK, June.

Jan Hamrsky / Water Strider / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris). Czech Republic. Controlled conditions.

Jan Hamrsky / Young Water Strider / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) feeding on mosquito. Czech Republic. Controlled conditions.

Colin Varndell / Common Pond Skater / Water Strider (Gerris lacustris) on water. New Forest, UK, July.

Jan Hamrsky / Water Strider / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris). Europe, August.

Jan Hamrsky / Water Strider / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) with mosquito prey. Europe, August.

Jan Hamrsky / Water Strider / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris). Europe, August.

Jan Hamrsky / Water Strider / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) with mosquito prey. Europe, August.

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Wigeon drake (Anas penelope) walking and sliding its feet like a skater on thin ice at margins of frozen, flooded marshland, on a cold sunny winter day. Greylake RSPB reserve, Somerset Levels, UK, Jan...

Nick Upton / Pond skater / Water strider (Aquarius najas) pair in tandem, with male guarding female on the water surface of a mountain stream. Corsica, France, June.

Nick Upton / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) standing on water at edge of stream. Wiltshire, UK, April.

Stephen Dalton / Pond skater (Gerris lacustris) with insect prey, on water surface, UK

Michael Hutchinson / Pond skaters (Gerris lacustris) feeding on Large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) on water surface, Bristol, UK

Bernard Castelein / Pond skater {Gerris sp} on water surface, Belgium

Scott Leslie / Pond Skater (Gerridae) pair with red parasitic organisms, mating, West Stoney Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dave Bevan / Pond skater (Gerris lacustris) mating pair on water surface, Wales, UK, May

Kim Taylor / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) on an algae-covered pond. Surrey, UK

Kim Taylor / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) on water surface, UK

John Cancalosi / Pond skaters {Gerris lacustris} feeding on Southern hawker dragonfly {Aeshna cyanea} England

Chris Packham / Pond Skater {Gerris gibbifer} on pond, Southampton, UK

Andy Sands / Pond skater (Gerris lacustris) Mating pair viewed from above, Wales, UK

Andy Sands / Pond skater (Gerris lacustris) Mating pair von water viewed from above, Wales, UK

Ingo Arndt / Pond Skater (Gerris sp) using surface tension to walk on water, a true bug of the Heteroptera suborder, Europe

Simon Colmer / A pair of Pondskaters (Gerris lacustris) mating, Dorset, UK

Andy Sands / Pond skater {Gerris lacustris} on surface of pond, Hertfordshire, England

Willem Kolvoort / Pond Skaters (Gerris rufoscutellatus) view from below, captive, Holland

Willem Kolvoort / Pond Skater (Gerris rufoscutellatus) view from below, captive, Holland

Kim Taylor / Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) on the surface of a still pond. Surrey, UK

Kim Taylor / Pondskater (Gerris lacustris) recently hatched nymph

Kim Taylor / Pondskater (Gerris lacustris) with fly prey. UK

Jose B. Ruiz / Pond-skater on water {Gerris lacustris} Spain

Bernard Castelein / Pond skaters mating on leaf (Gerris gibbifer)

Jan Vermeer / Ice skaters on frozen pond, Europe