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Water spiders can be found mainly throughout Britain, but can be seen in Central and Northern Europe, Northern Asia, and Siberia. The water spider helps the environment by buzzing around the water in between plants and capturing and eating it's prey with poison. Because they live in ponds and streams and lakes, getting rid of pests is good. So just like other spiders killing annoying pests on land, the water spider rids of the same thing, but underwater [http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Argyronetidae/Argyronetidae.htm 8].

You can find them anywhere from ponds, slow moving streams, shallow lakes, and basically wherever you can find lots of aquatic vegetation in the above locations [http://www.arkive.org/water-spider/argyroneta-aquatica/info.html#reference_1 1]. The environment is perfect for the water spider since the spider won't float off down the stream or into another part of the water, it tends to be Southern-bias though. The water spider spends the almost their entire life in the water, so the main habitat, Britain, for the Argyroneta aquatica is ideal for them, since Britain is covered on every side by water [http://wbrc.org.uk/WorcRecd/Issue9/watspidr.htm 6].