Your chlorine level needs to be increased to 3-5ppm and kept at that level. This will help you control them.
Add a bottle of "Pool First Aid". This will break the water's surface tension and the striders can't stay afloat and will drown. This is a temporary fix because, in my experience, more always show up.
The water can be drained outwith a hose.
Water striders have tiny hairs on their feet that enables them to walk on the surface tension of water without getting wet.
Insects that are able to walk across the surface of water are called water striders. Water striders make use of the high surface tension of water together with their long, hydrophobic legs to stay above water.
Surface tension is important to water striders because surface tension gives them the ability to float and not sink and drown.
pump it out
they are called water striders
yes they are called water striders!
yes all the time
Install a floating pool skimmer
Yes. Water Striders do it all the time.
Make sure your chemicals are balanced and add a clarifier available at your pool supply dealer.