Showing posts with label Cranefly (Conosia irrorata) Family Tipulidae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cranefly (Conosia irrorata) Family Tipulidae. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Mating Craneflies

I was sitting outside and out of the corner of my eye I saw strange shape going by. No, it was not ghost-like. :)
I saw it land on a tree but rather high up so I went and found a chair to stand on and grabbed my camera at the same time.

Even with the chair I could hardly get to it but saw that it was a mating pair of Craneflies.
As you can see, I was still a lot below them but the pictures came of fairly well so I thought I would post them. They can be enlatged for more detail. These insects have the longest legs!!