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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and Allies (Mecoptera) » Snow Scorpionflies (Boreidae) » Boreus » Mid-winter Boreus (Boreus brumalis)
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Winter cranefly, Snow fly - Sterling Nature Center - Boreus brumalis - male
Copyright © 2015 jdangelo

Winter cranefly, Snow fly - Sterling Nature Center - Boreus brumalis - Male
Sterling , Cayuga County, New York, USA
March 10, 2015
Temp was mid 40F, over cast and heavy snow pack. Insect was on the north slope of a drumlin in mixed hemlock-beech-maple woodland on the edge of an 80 acre beaver pond. The insect was crawling on the snow and did appear to jump or leap several times will being photographed.

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