"I'll come back, dear Jees Uck, before the first snow flies," he promised her, between the last kisses at the gang-plank.

"By hook or by crook, as you people say-that's a nice phrase -you'll be mine before the next snow flies."

And he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him.

"I'll be lookin' for you before snow flies."

Twenty-four hours later, snow flies.

Look at the snow fly!

I'm pushing to have it under cover before the first snow flies, and all ready by Winterfair.

It is as if you lived in a snow globe and once a day, somebody shook it to make the snow fly.

They are commonly called snow flies.

Up to 200 eggs have been found in female snow flies, which are laid singly (Schrock, 1992).