Water Boatmen

Though this blog still isn't officially up and running, (meaning I'm not promising more posts any time soon) I feel compelled to publish my findings somewhere, so here's what astonished me last night while looking in my back yard:

  Water Boatmen:




Yes, though I have no pond or small body of water anywhere close you my yard, there were at least twenty of these guys hopping around in a little patch of grass. This is a total mystery, as these little insects are aquatic. I have no idea as to how they got their, or how they survived several "dry days" without dying, but I will research this matter, and hopefully find something.