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Index of Subjects Hi Angus and all, > 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? * Many of the spiders are quite small, but I've occasionally found the odd larger spider as well. Most of the Opilione (Harvestman) seem to be of good size when I've found them on the snow. There's actually quite a bit of spider activity on milder days from January on, so it's well worth watching for them. However, it requires sharp eyes as they're easily mistaken for bits of dark debris on the snow! bev wigney (eastern Ontario) > > 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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