The spider's Walking On

Water
Water Spider
 Classification
Kingdom : Animalia
Phylum : Arthropoda
Class : Arachnida
Order : Araneae
Family : Cybaeidae
Genus : Argyroneta
Species : Argyroneta
aquatic
 The water spider (Argyroneta
aquatica japonica) is a
subspecies of the water spider. In
Japanese it is called the
mizugumo. The Japanese water
spider is almost exactly like its
European cousin. The only
distinction between the two is
that the Japanese water spider
has larger genitalia. Like its
cousin, the Japanese water
spider lives under water by
constructing diving bells,
underwater spheres that contain
oxygen, which they live in.
 Characteristic
• Water spider has a unique body
structure that enables it to walk
on water.
• At each end of the spider's legs
are thick velvet fabric consisting
of hairs are coated with
waterproof wax. This enabled
him to walk on water without
sinking.
• Buoyancy is so high that can run
comfortably on the water even
though his weight was 25 times
greater.
 Walking on Water
When walking on water,
water spiders use his hind
legs as a rudder. Middle
legs to move, while the
shorter front legs to
catch prey. Water
spiders moving so fast
that suddenly can jump
forward as far as one
meter above the water
surface. That is, he
moves as fast as the
motor-boat.
 Hunting a prey
• When hunting, the spider uses water as the water level of
the net.
• Dragonflies, flies, or a butterfly that falls into the water
because it failed to fly is an ideal prey for this species of
spider.
• When their wings touched the water, insects trapped in
the surface water is attached to a paper-like flies.
Weakest vibrations caused in the surface water can be
felt by this spider.
• In addition to the location of the fall, the spider can also
measure large fall prey. He soon chasing prey toward the
trapped in the water, a bite with venom and kill.
 Reproduction
• Males and females are different in
many ways.
• Males rove frequently, searching for
prey and for mates.
• Females, however, spend the
majority of their lives inside their
diving bells; they ambush their prey.
• Males are better divers than
females.
• Females and juveniles are active
during the night, while males are
active during the daytime.
• The young do not balloon as other
spiders do; rather, they leave their
nest and find their new homes by
swimming.