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On 20-Feb-07, at 10:32 PM, Stephen Shaw wrote: > As a sort of reference point, I recall reading that the UK > low-temperature record for an insect "behaving" was -5°C for a > bristletail > (wingless insect) that someone observed sitting on a seaside rock > in Wales, > whereupon it promptly ran away. * I've been photographing snow surface invertebrates here in Ontario for a couple of winters. Around -5C is about the lowest temperature that I would find active insects or spiders. This page of my collection of snow surface insects has several of the flies that I've found out and about on the snow. http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/snow_creatures&page=2 Bev Wigney (easter Ontario)
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