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It could have been one of the moths in the family Elachistidae. Some of these overwinter as adults and are seen early in the Spring. We've had what I take to be these coming to our windows at night for some weeks now. --- Peter Payzant On 2020-04-28 6:31 PM, Stephen Shaw wrote: > While a UFO sighting might be nicer, this sounds a more likely > explanation. But what winged or jumping insects are about in January > other than tiny and rare "snow fleas”? An alien male winter moth if > still around by then doesn’t fly rapidly like that. Two ideas: was it > a recording (data logging) camera that could have captured this way > back in mid-summer but the memory of which was only downloaded months > later?— do its images have date/time signatures? Or could it have been > an overwintering moth that emerged from its chrysalis prematurely from > soil in a planter in the heated indoors (sometimes happens, noctuid > moths), and that someone had just booted outside? It would then have > a minute or so to fly around before it cooled down rapidly to ambient > temperature and became immobilized.
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