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INSECTS have been subjected to simulated upper air conditions, and the death of soft-bodied forms artificially coated with ice has been discussed1. However, I know of no previous record of an insect enclosed in a natural atmospheric ice crystal. A fall of ice crystals was observed in Banff National Park, Alberta, during the early evening of May 4, 1951, and one of the crystals contained a minute adult male chironomid. Weather associated with this record is described below.
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Wellington, W. G., Canad. Ent., 77, (7), 44 (1945).
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HENSON, W. A Small Insect Enclosed in an Atmospheric Ice Crystal. Nature 169, 40 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169040b0
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