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By Rebecca and Sharifa.
Ice bugs are found on top of cold
mountains, in some forests and
sometimes in caves near snowfields.
They live at levels of 656 to 10,499
feet (200 to 3,200 metres). They are
only active when the temperature
is cold and are also known as rock
crawlers because some of them live
under rocks.
They usually die when the
temperature gets over 10 degrees
Celsius.
Icebugs are wingless insects that
have antennae that grow up to 2345 segments long.
They can grow up to roughly 1.2
inches long, have a small skinny
body and also have biting mouth
parts.
Icebugs are yellowish-brown in
colour and are know as
grylloblattodea, ‘gryll’ meaning
cricket and ‘ blatta’ meaning
cockroach because of the cricket
and cockroach like features the
icebug has.
Icebugs lay their black eggs one at a time
on or in soil, rotten wood or under leaves
and stones.
The eggs hatch within a few months or up to
three years.
The adult icebug lives up to at least one
year old.
The females lay their eggs when they are
around one year old.
They take several years to complete a single
generation.
Icebugs eat dead plants and animals, including
insects but the adult icebug mostly eat small
dead insects.
Some icebugs look for food on the surface of the
snow.
The larvae of the icebug can survive without food
for three to six months.
Icebugs eat:
Plants
Dying/dead insects
Spiders
Icebugs live in Japan, Korea, China,
north and western America, Canada,
the U.S.A and Russia.
Icebugs were first discovered in 1906
but the first time the order was officially
described was in 1915 and up until now
only 25 species of icebugs have been
identified. Icebugs, being the second
smallest order of insects so far
discovered, have never been found
in the southern hemisphere.
Icebugs have no known
economical importance and
are not harmful or beneficial to
humans because of that and
the fact that they live in places
not inhabited by humans.
However, they can be harmful
to insects because they eat
other insects and spiders.
• Icebugs are omnivores who eat not just plants and
insects, but spiders as well.
• These rare to find insects grow slowly due to the cold
temperature they live in.
• Their habitat isn't shared with many other insects.
• These insects are poorly known and were first thought to
be related to crickets and grasshoppers.
• Other names for icebugs:
Rock crawlers
Grylloblattodea
Ice crawlers
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