Experiment with an electric toothbrush

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Shot Date: 2005/06

species
Aquarius elongatus

Key Words
water strider
electric toothbrush
surface wave

Yoshihide Shibata
2005/10/06 submitted

Animalia >Arthropoda >Insecta >Hemiptera >Gerridae >Aquarius >

A water strider detects the presence of a fallen insect by sensing the surface waves through its legs. When surface waves are generated by a wire attached to an electric toothbrush, the water strider tried to prey on the wire as if it were a fallen insect.

(Data No.momo051005ae03b)

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