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Ice Bugs

  • February 20, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The tiny snow scorpionfly is not a fly or scorpion, but a type of insect found mostly at high altitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. These hopping bugs — ancient relatives of the flea — are so adapted to being in the cold that even the heat from a human hand could kill one.

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