Arctic mammals & insects: two footnotes in Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams
* Grizzly bear, polar bear, short-tailed weasel (ermine), least weasel, mink, wolverine, coyote, wolf, red fox, arctic fox, hoary marmot, arctic ground squirrel, collared lemming, brown lemming, tundra redback vole, tundra vole, Alaska vole, porcupine, arctic hare, tundra hare, caribou, muskox.
+ They include about 175 species of parasitic wasp, 25 species of sawfly, 40 species of moth, 100 species of root maggot, and 150 species of midge, as well as smaller numbers of species of black and crane flies, blowflies, hover flies, bumblebees, mosquitoes, springtails, fleas, butterflies, and about 60 species of beetle.
(via metaincognita)
