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Boreus brumalis - male

Boreus brumalis - Male
Horse Hill Nature Reserve, Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
December 28, 2020
Size: 3 mm.
Found on Leucobryum glaucum* growing on the based of a tree beside the trail. When disturbed it clambered over the moss and tried to hide within the cracks of the tree's bark before leaping off the tree, legs drawn up and playing possum, when I tried to gently nudge it from the bark crevice with a twig into the collecting vial.

*As identified using the length of the leaf-scales as according to Ralph Pope's 2016 "Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts: A Field Guide to Common Bryophytes of the Northeast". A sample of the moss was collected for identification together with the specimen after photographs were taken of it in the field.

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