Water Striders

Today in fluid mechanics I learned about surface tension. Our professor explained why there is surface tension and the fluid mechanics behind it. He then showed us a picture of some water striders walking on top of the water, and explained that they are able to walk on top of the water because of surface tension. But that's not exactly what he said, no, he said "water striders couldn't do it without surface tension" and this was funny because this was the photo he showed us. Bow chica wow.