marsh treaders
1marsh treader — ▪ insect also called water measurer any insect of the family Hydrometridae (order Heteroptera), so named because of its slow, deliberate manner of moving as it walks along the surface of a pond or crawls among shore vegetation. Marsh… …
2heteropteran — ▪ insect order Introduction any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the… …
3Hydrometridae — Hydrometra stagnorum Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …
