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hadley

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We currently have about 2 ft of snow in the yard right now. My 9 yr old daughter told me last week that she had seen fleas in the snow when she was out playing and I told her she was crazy. It had not been even close to 32 for the past 3 weeks and had been below zero quite a few nights. Well yesterdayit was mid 30s and I was out moving some stuff around and noticed little black spots all over the snow. I got down to investigate and they all started jumping and moving. Upon closer inspection I realized they really were fleas and they were everywhere. Even on top of the 4 ft high snow piles I had plowed. Anybody ever heard of fleas being out in the snow in the winter? I had never heard or seen such a thing!
 
snow lice/ fleas is what they're called. See them all the time when collecting maple sap. Sometimes so heavy that there's a 1/2 inch layer of them on the filter from staining the sap.
 
Interesting. I guess I just never paid any attention before and just assumed it was small flecks of dirt or creosote from one of the wood stoves.
 
No fleas,but I had a heck of a bunch of dead house flies laying all along the south side of the house a few days ago.
 
Very common and all over the place in central New
York (on the snow). They are NOT fleas although they
look like it at a glance.
 
Had a story on the local news station today in Detroit that they are, indeed, springtails or sometimes called "snow fleas". They said there are hundreds of thousands per cubic yd of dirt but because they're so small and black they don't get noticed except in winter. They help in breaking down organic material and manufacture a liquid akin to alcohol to survive cold temps.
 
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