[NatureNS] kelp flies

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:26:30 -0400
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&gt;On 20-Feb-07, at 11:32 PM, Stephen Shaw wrote:&lt;/DIV&
Hi Bev:
Your three pages of "Snow Creatures" are most 
interesting. I was especially surprised to see 
the number of spiders that are out and about!! Are all the latter quite small?
Cheers,
Angus

At 11:51 PM 2/20/2007, you wrote:

>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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