Snow flea is a common name for several
arthropods, not including true
flea
Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas live by ingesting the blood of their hosts. Adult fleas grow to about long, a ...
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Boreidae
Boreidae, commonly called snow scorpionflies, or in the British Isles, snow fleas (no relation to the snow flea '' Hypogastrura nivicola'') are a very small family of scorpionflies, containing only around 30 species, all of which are boreal or ...
'', a family of scorpionflies known as snow fleas in the British Isles, especially:
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Boreus hyemalis
''Boreus hyemalis'' (Syn.: ''Boreus hiemalis'') is an insect, 3 to 4.5 millimetres long from the family of ''Boreidae''. Its common name is snow flea.
It has stubby, grey-brown wings with a metallic sheen. Snow fleas crawl or hop over the snow ...
'' a species of scorpionfly that crawls on snow
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Hypogastrura nivicola
''Hypogastrura nivicola'' is a species of dark blue springtail. Its (US) English name is snow flea, but there are also insects called by that name. They are often seen jumping about on the surface of snow on a warm winter day in North America.
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'', a species of springtail known as snow flea in North America
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* Several springtails of the family Isotomidae and the genus ''
Desoria'', known as snow fleas in Europe
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