Volume 38, Number 2, May 1992: Snowflies

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Cover figure: A male snow fly, species Chionea alexandriana Garrett, as viewed from above (the body is approximately 7 mm long). Such line drawings illustrate the art skills useful to an entomologist.

Snow Flies
by John Richard Schrock

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IN THIS ISSUE
- insects in winter?
- why be a winter fly?
- how do insects survive in winter?
- how do snow flies remain active at very cool temperatures
- how do we know they belong to the crane family?
- why are they called "flies" if they lack wings?
- when are adult snow flies found?
- how long do they live?
- why wander on the snow?
- the strange case of the fly that wears a necklace
- life cycle
- why are there so many different species of snow crane flies?
- what do snow flies eat?
- what eats snow flies?
- where do snow flies occur?
- why do snow flies occur where they do?
- exactly where can you collect snow flies?
- why did they lose their wings?
- romance in the tunnels?
- strange behavior of a strange fly
- snow scorpionflies
- what good are they?

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