Water skater can run on water surface . Why and how?

Eww sounds gross lol

I have seen those types of bugs do that and I often wandered how they were able to do that also without sinking under the water. I think alot of them have small wings. I have seen some mosquitos do that too. It has to be that they have wings to keep them above the surface of the water when they go across it.

it is because of the miniscus layer.... the one tat dips up at the sides - they are small scale enough to make use of that.

By the way=- people can walk un custard also - it is a rare liquid that has the property of staying liquid when you poke it, but hard if you press it.... so next time you can make a bath or pool of custard you can amaze your friends like Jesus did!

These predatory insects rely on surface tension to walk on top pf water. They can stand effortlessly on water due to their non-wetting legs.The resistance of the legs is due to the "special hierarchical structure of the legs, which are covered by large numbers of oriented tiny hairs with fine nanogrooves.