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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		What Are Snow Fleas?
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:02
	Publish Date:		2019-03-27 16:22:29
	Description:		We're continuing our Curious North series today with a listener question about something you may or may not have heard of. An anonymous listener in the Rhinelander area recently asked: What are snow fleas? Where do they live and what do they eat? Ken Krall relayed the questioned to P.J.Liesch. Here's their conversation... "I'm P.J. Liesch, (UW) Extension emtomologist and Director of the UW-Madison insect diagnostic lab. " Krall: "Someone came up with a question about snow fleas, so tell us what they are..." PJL:"You might have noticed them before. Maybe you were out cross-country skiing and snowshoeing and it's about a millimeter long dark creature you can see out on the snow. They're found in large numbers and they're a relative of insects...commonly called spring ails. They get the name spring tails because they have a little structure on their bodies that works like a spring-loaded Pogo stick that allows them to jump around. If you look at them closely, they look like flakes of
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