Jellyfish in Minnesota

I wish I hadn't put my outboard to bed for the winter or I'd be out on the lakes up north looking for freshwater jellyfish, rare in these parts but apparently making a brief appearance up around Duluth.

I have heard of these but have never seen them of course, as the little critters spend most of their lives as tiny polyps on the bottom of the lake.

This reminds me of another strange Northern Minnesota occurrence: snow fleas. On the first sorta-warm days of spring, usually early March, when there's still a couple feet of snow on the ground but the crust of the snow is warmed by the sun, snow fleas will hatch and hop around on the snow; you can barely see them but they're there.

Of course some of you out there won't believe me, just like you don't believe me when I tell you about the pack of wolves that came around the yard and tried to recruit our dog one time.