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Pond skaters are most well known for their ability to "walk on water", where pond skaters use surface tension to delicately walk on the surface of the water. Pond skaters float on the surface of the water sensing vibrations and ripples in the water with sensitive hairs on their legs and bodies.
In this way, can pond skaters skate across soap water?
If you have liquid soap handy, put a drop in the water near the paper clip. If they crash land in the water, they break through the surface and are trapped by the surface tension. They become prey for the pond skaters, who skate over and suck their juices like a milkshake!
Simply so, what effect explains the reason why the insect pond scatter walks on water?
So this top most layer experience a force of attraction in the downward direction behaving like a spring. Insects have very very less weight. So when they walk on water their legs presses the water molecules and as a result water molecules pushes them back creating a floating like condition.
While striders don't bite people, they are highly efficient predators. A water strider rapidly grabs a small insect with its front legs, then uses its mouthparts to pierce the prey's body and suck out its juices.