Pretty picture Thursday

The last post was a little heavy–how about some happy pictures?

This is a lovely photo of some water striders. They have water-repelling (hydrophobic) hair on their feet, which allows them to stand on the water.

You can see a larger view of this lovely photo at Ametexa’s page.

This entry was written by Bug Girl and posted on March 27, 2008 at 7:16 am and filed under Entomology, Insects with tags , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Dan
    Posted March 27, 2008 at 7:39 am | Permalink

    Nice pic!… I just made that one my desktop wallpaper. ;-)

  2. Dave
    Posted March 27, 2008 at 7:42 am | Permalink

    Beautiful!

  3. Bug Girl
    Posted March 27, 2008 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

    HA! This post was scraped by a blog called “Celebrity Hair”. I don’t think this is the kind of “Pretty” content they were expecting. :D


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