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on land-living insects that have fallen into the water. Less is known about the feeding of the oceanic species, but they appear to mostly eat zooplankton, with other recorded items being floating insects, fish eggs and larvae, and dead jellyfish. Small prey is caught and eaten by a single Halobates, but larger prey such as small fish may be eaten by three or four Halobates at once. Adults may cannibalize

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