Nature Notebook

If an insect species wants to better its chances for reproduction, then avoiding insectivorous predators would be a good bet. Stoneflies, winter crane flies and snow scorpionflies wait until winter, when bats and birds are gone, to finish their metamorphosis into the adult stage. Their “juvenile” life stages are spent in the water away from those major predators.

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