Common Pond skater (Gerris lacustris)

When I filmed the video which accompanies this photograph, the Pond Skater was my primary subject.

However, I witnessed something far for exciting than I could ever have imagined.

It turns out the video captures behaviour from the Pond Skater's intended victim that was something only observed and researched in any detail, in a laboratory setting, in 2015 and which has rarely been filmed in the wild.

Witness it for yourself here:

comments (5)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Omg, I always knew Michael Jackson was a fraud. How does the spider moonwalk like that? Posted 4 years ago
1. Philip Booker
  
  Lion
  
  It throws out some silk, uses its leg as a sail, and the silk as a brake!
  
  I was asked earlier today to send the video to one of the Researchers who did the 2015 study, which is rather cool.
  
  (Is that a trumpet I hear?) Posted 4 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Brilliant! Posted 4 years ago