Water strider, pond skater at Boompa, QLD
Identification history
| Aquarius antigone | 6 Jan 2025 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Aquarius antigone | 16 Sep 2024 | Petesteamer |
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Quite a few on the calm water of the big pools, hard to judge numbers but in some small areas they were thick. The pools had various small (75-150mm) native fish but these were NOT seen feeding on the skaters.
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Location information
- Coordinates 152.089139-25.639990
- Maps Mount Walsh National Park
- Places Boompa, QLD
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 29 Jun 2024 11:21 AM Recorded on
- Petesteamer Recorded by
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Collections
Petesteamer Water & Shore Bugs (several families) True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) Insects Wide Bay NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Aquarius antigone Scientific name
- Water strider, pond skater Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 777.8m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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