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>On 20-Feb-07, at 11:32 PM, Stephen Shaw wrote:</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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