This strange critter is Boreus brumalis, also known as a snow scorpionfly. As adults they spend much of their time directly on the snow, and are well-adapted to the cold; apparently they can't survive being held in a human hand because it's too warm.

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I'm an indie science-fiction author, and my most recent book is A Slice Of Mars, an anti-capitalist slice of life story about regular people starting a pizza parlour on Mars. The story is set in a sci-fi society that fought and rejected corporate authoritarianism in the past, and has tried to build an alternate way of doing things. Inspired by Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series, and Malka M Older's Infomocracy! It's available from multiple booksellers.

It's important to me that we try to imagine better futures even while acknowledging that we can't achieve perfection, and this was one of my attempts at contributing to that genre.

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