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How can you get rid of water striders?

Updated: 4/27/2022
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Use soapy water. Use 2 dashes of dish soap in a water spray bottle and spray them directly. They die and you can net them out and have them gone forever

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Why would you want to? They are harmless and a sign that the pond is a healthy ecosystem. Anything you added to the water would likely harm everything there.

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