The weather the past three days (mid to upper 30's) has been perfect for winter insects, and they have been everywhere. Literally. This evening, at around 6pm, I was heading into the Unitarian Church to get ready for the Naturalist Journeys lecture and I noticed a black speck on the door as I reached for the handle (see the red square in the picture below). I bent down to get a closer look, and it turned out to be a winter stonefly!
Presumably this bug was attracted to the light above the door. The North Branch of the Winooski River runs just a few hundred feet from here. But the river is canalized in this stretch in the downtown and not the sort of place I would picture a stonefly larva growing up. None-the-less, there it was, just sitting on the door waiting to be discovered.
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