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Helen Bredson — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:29:49 +0000

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Comment on Moon Shadows by Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:47:34 +0000

Lovely, Joanne. May you and Bailey have many, many more full moons on crisp winter snow.

Comment on Moon Shadows by Joanne Schmidt

Joanne Schmidt — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:43:03 +0000

tonight – or actually very early in the post midnight evening – I got up and went for a walk under the full moon – the moon that has been described as the closest to the earth in 18 years. The deep snow had a strong crust and I could walk anywhere in the bush. My dog Bailey was also enjoying the special excursion. There were wonderful shadows of branches and trunks on the snow, but they were not the pale purple shadows that I have have seen on other moonlit snow walks. Sometimes they remind me of Japanese prints. My spirit wanted to continue walking on the bright moonlit snow forever – but the practical considerations of distance, safety, falling, …. meant that I eventually turned around and proceeded down the hill towards the lights of my home. Perhaps the right conditions will come again before the snow disappears for another year.

Comment on Snow Feas by Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:37:38 +0000

Hey Donna

Snow Fleas, also know as Springtails, are harmless. They are not really a flea at all. They do not bite and they do not live indoors. They are actually around all year but we notice them mostly during warm winter days because they emerge when the weather warms and they are noticeable against the white snow. They get the name flea not because they are fleas at all but that they use their tail to spring forward and so look like a hopping flea.

Click on my link in the post and you will learn a lot more.

Sometimes in the spring when the weather warms very quickly, the Springtails or Snow Fleas will congregate so thickly in puddles and water runoff along the roadsides that they look like oil slicks. Dip you hand in and pull up a handful. They feel like velvet.

Lovely little critters, really.

Deb

Comment on Snow Feas by Donna Holmes

Donna Holmes — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:04:27 +0000

We have these all over our yard, and just found out what they are…are they harmful to kids/pets? Will they come into the house if we are out playing in the snow? Do we need to exterminate??? I thought they went underground in the warmer weather??? I read that somewhere.

Can they live indoors?

I’m not sure I’m liking these…

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Comment on Snow Feas by Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:51:28 +0000

Certainly. And if you go to my squidoo lens about snow fleas, you’ll find a link to a video of snow fleas (spring tails) jumping.

Comment on Snow Feas by Lorraine

Lorraine — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:07:13 +0000

May I use this photo for inclusion in a story for children? I have lots of local snow fleas but I do not have a camera that will magnify them like this.

Thank you. Lorraine Leidholdt