We went to see what sorts of creatures we could find in the snow...
Saw lots of little bagworms, this piece of bark also had the shed skin of a spikey caterpillar
This little guy appears to be a mycetophilid
A beautiful male Pityohyphantes costatus ... just look at those pedipalps!
Spent about 20 minutes trying to photograph this fly, and this is the best I got. It's only about 4mm long - after some investigation we have determined it is in the family Lonchopteridae, most likely the genus Lonchoptera
This Harmonia axyridis was either dead or just very cold.
Teensy tiny little pupae - probably a moth
And finally - a collembolan! That was the goal of our entire trip, to see some snow fleas. I finally fell into the snow to really look, and we started seeing them everywhere. They are SO CUTE! We saw a variety of sizes and got to watch them jump around... we were squealing like little girls. I'm sure we got some strange looks from the passing skiers.They were likely either Hypogastrura nivicola or harveyi
We will have to do this more often :)
3 comments:
OMGOMGOMG SOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!1!2!3!4!
You're going to make a snow flea plushie today, aren't you? With polyfill for snow? Please?
I'm going back out with my YakTrax™ right now to look for some.
I've never seen a snow flea before. How cute is THAT?? And your plushies are great.
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