A new, yet-to-be-named species of the gnat snakeworm fly was sighted in Denali National Park and Preserve. As seen here, hundreds of larvae sometimes travel together, forming a crawling column. (Video courtesy Jenna Hamm)
Elaina O’Brien ran back to staff housing on a busy morning at the Camp Denali lodge last Friday to grab the radio she’d forgotten at her cabin.
that moment, they were traveling together as larvae in a “rare phenomenon,” said Derek Sikes, curator of insects and professor of entomology at the University of Alaska Museum of the North and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.Hundreds of larvae, each almost a centimeter long, form the crawling column. Columns of larvae can stretch up to 2 or 3 feet, and they may gather in that formation only for a few hours, Sikes said.
Hundreds of larvae, each almost a centimeter in length, form a crawling column. Photographed July 13, 2007.
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