It's winter where I live, and there no bug friends, except the occasional fly indoors. Are there bugs that can hang out in the snow or in colder climates? Thanks!
Yes, actually! It depends on where you live obviously. But there are snow scorpionflies, snow flies (which are related to crane flies), winter stoneflies, snowfleas (a type of springtail), and ice bugs/ice crawlers, a type of insect in the family Grylloblattidae, just to name a few!
Most scorpionflies aren’t adapted to living in cold whether, but the family Boreidae is! Here’s a snow scorpionfly:
Boreus brumalis by berkshirenaturalist
Snow fly, genus Chionea:
Photo by erikamitchell
Canadian willowfly (one type of winter stonefly), Oemopteryx glacialis:
Photo by e-aus-kanada
Snowfleas, Hypogastrura nivicola:
Photo by jimtietz
Ice crawler, Genus Grylloblatta:
Photo by nrudzik
