Winter bugs called snow fleas are born in icy waters and feed on algae that grows on snow. Spring-tails are also called snow fleas and they leap around on snow banks. They eat the sap which oozes from trees. Spring-tails look very similar to fossils of 300 million years ago!
Province prepares for a beetle attack
Province prepares for a beetle attack The brown spruce longhorn beetle has ravaged trees
in Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park and now neighbouring New
Brunswick is setting traps to prevent the beetle from migrating to
their forests. New Brunswick’s Natural Resources Department
has set 100 special insect traps in order to ward off any invasion
of the species. The beetle has not yet been seen in New Brunswick
but officials remain concerned about the danger to the
province’s trees. 30 JUNE 2000
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