Crossword-Solution: STRIDERS 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The dragon fly or mosquito hawk as well as “water tigers,” water striders and many kinds of beetles are the natural enemies of mosquitoes and as they never harm our crops we should never harm them.

You surely remember the longlegged, dark colored fellows that straddle about on top of the water, in ponds or in still pools in streams? Who has not tried to catch them! And how very seldom any one succeeds! May knows where we can see some water striders close at hand.

When the warm spring sunshine wakes up the sleeping plants, then the little water striders wake up too.

The young water striders look like their parents, and they, too, like to go circling and flashing over the top of the water, with their long legs spread out.

This is doubtless her vengeance for thy slaying of Grendel; he is dead, and his kinswoman has come to avenge him." "I have heard it reported by some of my people That they have looked on two such unearthly ones, Huge-bodied march-striders holding the moor wastes; One of them seemed to be shaped like a woman, Her fellow in exile bore semblance of manhood, Though huger his stature than man ever grew to: In years that are long gone by Grendel they named him, But know not his father nor aught of his kindred.