#that's a crane fly

[crevicedwelling]

[onenicebugperday]

Can you tell me something cool about crane flies ‘cause I have an irrational fear of them.

They're completely harmless!!! Here's a quick lil video about them~

Also they can be very pretty! My fav are phantom crane flies:

Fashionable :) Photo by ianmanningnin

[saritazoo]

A new Animal Fictions vs Animal Facts, just in time for Halloween!

Did you hear this myth growing up? Which type of animal was your “daddy longlegs”?

[spoonybird]

New bookmark designs! c:

[michaelnordeman]

Life around a small pond: Southern Hawker/blågrön mosaikslända, Large Marsh Grasshopper/kärrgräshoppa, a very young Common Toad/vanlig padda and Marsh Crane Fly/kärrharkrank. Sätraskogen Nature Reserve in Stockholm, Sweden (August 30, 2013).

[sadder-daisy]

[yrlocalghost]

a sketch of the very long-legged beloved beastcreature, as promised. world's number 1 most tortured beast 🥇

[sacredwhores]

Mikhail Kalatozov - The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

[mostlybirdsandphotos]

the sandhill cranes are back! I got to see some mating displays, which apparently involve tossing things in the air and hopping around (｡>ヮ< )

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Crane fly metamorphosis puzzles me

I know there’s probably a scientific explanation for this, maybe most of the body mass is used as nutrition or something, but like.

You look at a crane fly larva. It’s a regular gray caterpillar, chubby and roundishly long.

And then you look at a crane fly and it’s just. A flying wisp of hair

[emaadsidiki]

Highway to new horizons. 🛣️🕊️

[crevicedwelling]

we got the whole lanky guy convention over here

[onenicebugperday]

Have you seen how big crane fly larvae are??? Wow

They can be quite large, yeah! Here's a large crane fly larva (Tipulidae):

More importantly though some of them have little "faces." Here's a tiger crane fly larva:

Lol. That's actually his butt I think.

Photos by lumenal and marcello

[frankietankbaker]

Here's a painting I recently did. This one's for my old man

[gooseontheloose41]

[michaelnordeman]

Trichocera major - a Winter Crane Fly/vintermygga. Värmland, Sweden (November 5, 2022).