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Common Pondskater, Common pond strider

Gerris lacustris

4,225Records since 2000
MayPeak month
95Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb4
Mar61
Apr581
May903
Jun508
Jul466
Aug419
Sep708
Oct323
Nov57
Dec16

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Northamptonshire England814
2Cambridgeshire England183
3Fife Scotland161
4Nottinghamshire England144
5Worcestershire England134
6North Yorkshire England131
7Suffolk England124
8Norfolk England115
9Doncaster England79
10Lincolnshire England75
11Cumbria England71
12Somerset England63
13Bristol, City of England54
14North Lincolnshire England48
15Highland Scotland45
3,593 England340 Scotland237 Wales45 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 95 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,225
Peak month
May
Counties with records
95
Scientific name
Gerris lacustris
Group
True bugs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Gerridae
Genus
Gerris
Name with authority
Gerris lacustris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q20863 · GBIF 5154105