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Index of Subjects This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0B1C_01D33557.7394B9F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, thanks Tipulidae does seem right. Here's the link for the "orange" ones: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1016088. Or http://bugguide.net/node/view/1324875. They don't look very orange in some of the pics. Also labelled Tipulidae. Jane From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Stephen Shaw Sent: September 24, 2017 3:19 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] orange crane flies, perhaps? Hi Jane, We usually get large numbers emerging here in September too, 2" would be about right, sounds like yours but the color would be dull grayish-buff, not orange. I'm not sure what 'orange crane fly' is, but recall years ago deciding that ours was one of two European species that have colonized Canada and part of USA, and I think I settled on Tipula paludosa (common European crane fly), but which is very similar to the other alien T. oleracea (marsh crane fly). Go to the useful (with pics) Crane Flies of Pennsylvania catalogue http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/cranefly/ and near the end under Tipula check out these two species for the picture of their distinguishing feature (the separation of the compound eyes seen from underneath), mentioned by Stephen Luk; you may need a hand magnifier lens. I'd be interested to learn if it checks out. Steve (Hfx) On Sep 24, 2017, at 12:42 PM, David&Jane Schlosberg <dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca <mailto:dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca> > wrote: We've had unusually large numbers of crane flies in our grass the past week or so. They fly up when I walk through the grass.
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