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Spotting

Description:

Flying insect with a long body and spindly legs

Notes:

Found hovering around a light

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2 Comments

ElizabethEvans
ElizabethEvans 12 years ago

Thanks!

Gordon Dietzman
Gordon Dietzman 12 years ago

This is most likely a cranefly (family Tipulidae). They are certainly flying right now in your area and they do congregate at lights at dusk and night. See http://bugguide.net/node/view/183/bgimag... more more images.

ElizabethEvans
Spotted by
ElizabethEvans

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Spotted on May 28, 2011
Submitted on May 29, 2011

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