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Gemeine Skorpionsfliege
Female in picture
Scorpionflies have been known to scavenge ...
Edge of forest, meadow
13-20mm.
very popular.
1st,2nd photo: male, 3rd photo:
Fly-like creature with long horse-face and banded wings.
Orange body with a long proboscis. Wings clear with black pattering. I found ...
Female. Males exhibit a pair of claspers at ...
Not a fly nor a scorpion, the scorpionfly ...
These unusual insects have four similar long, narrow, wings with dark brown ...
species in nine families worldwide. Mecoptera are sometimes called
The common scorpionfly has a black and ...
i had disturbed him by stealing food out of an ...
"Currently 54 species of scorpionflies are ...
detail pic of its back showing the wings, I don't think it can be IDed to ...
"Currently 54 species of scorpionflies are ...
The common scorpionfly has a black and ...
the base and sharply pointed at the tip, like a scorpion's stinger [
Scorpionflies are so-called because the end ...
Scorpionflies are so-called because the end ...
this involves looking at the ventral surface of the genital capsule and in ...
Female. The Common Scorpion fly (Panorpa ...