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musclem3m0ry · 2 years

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Bug caught in a fabric pattern printer

#liminal #crane fly #weirdcore

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onenicebugperday · 23 days

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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

#corpsegods #insects #bugs #fly #diptera #larva #crane fly #large crane fly #tiger crane fly #leatherjacket #the more you know

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cupcakeshakesnake · 1 year

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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

#original art #doodle #bugs #bugs tw #insects #insect #crane fly #snake's art

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jenfoundabug · 14 days

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Female crane fly (family Tipulidae) laying eggs. I knew some species lay eggs in soil, but wasn’t expecting it to look this silly 😆

While most crane fly adults don’t feed (they’re not giant mosquitoes!), most larvae eat dead plant matter. Larvae are an important part of the soil ecosystem because they convert organic matter into nutrients that plants and other life forms can use. Crane flys are also an important food source at all stages of their life for everything from spiders to song birds.

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drinksss · 27 days

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yummers

#artists on tumblr #crane fly #3d modeling #blender #ferruginous tiger crane fly #nephrotoma ferruginea #entomology #bugs #bugblr #smoothie #food #insects #bugcore #recipe #cycles #render

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skullvis · 5 months

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Okay so I gotta know.

From left to right we have A- The Crane Fly, B- The Cellar Spider, and C- The Harvestmen

Please feel free to add in the tags any other colloquial names you have for these guys, and where you’re from/grew up—saw a poll on here specifically about the crane fly but wanted to know if there was a big difference in what peoples image of a daddy long legs is.

#tumblr polls #polls #insect #insects #arachnids #daddy long legs #spiders #tw arachnophobia #tw entomophobia #skullpolls #open poll #bugs #bug pill #harvestmen #crane fly #cellar spider

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flame-shadow · 1 year

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crane flies, otherwise known as THEY ARE SO LEGGY

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#crane fly #anthro #bug people #studies #flameshadowart #i knew they were leggy but actually DRAWING the legs became an exercise in figuring out how many i could fit and how much leg to cut off #i like the anthro on the right tho. chill fly

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alteregozowie · 1 month

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WHO THOUGHT THIS CREATURE WAS A GOOD IDEA!? WHO???? I HATE THIS THING. I HATE IT.

#crane fly #horror #i hate this

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braincrabart · 6 months

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I beleve they were House fly, Black fly and Cranefly

Concepts for fly anatomy in my anthroing style! These aren't 100% yet, and i never got around to defining the differences in their wings- but overall I'm still happy with the study. I'm also open to critique- im always re-assessing my insect anatomy, so input is always welcome.

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rainbowroachies · 2 months

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I found a new theriotype! Crany it is, welcome cranies welcome!

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bowelfly · 2 years

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more artfight bugs

bugs belong to VincentTheServal, rotten_pears, @heippalappu, @blaberid, @ghastaboo, @skelebee

#bflyart #artfight #bug people #damselfly #aphid #mayfly #crane fly #mantis #bee #odonata #hemiptera #ephemeroptera #diptera #mantodea #hymenoptera

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vintagewildlife · 5 months

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Crane fly By: Unknown photographer From: Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge 1971

#crane fly #dipteran #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #1971 #1970s #Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge

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onenicebugperday · 9 months

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Hi!! I'm trying to get over my overwhelming fear of crane flies, is there any way you could supply some fun facts about them? Specifically pedicia albivitta but there's so many species and not a lot of information I can find about them

Well for starters all crane flies are entirely harmless. They don't have mouthparts capable of biting and can't sting or pinch or anything. If they fly at you it's because they don't see you or register you as something to avoid, not because they're attacking or have any reason to land on you.

Despite common belief and sometimes being referred to as mosquito hawks or skeeter eaters, they do not eat mosquitoes, and are in fact incapable of eating them because they don't have the right mouthparts.

Most adults don't eat at all, but if they do, they eat nectar, pollen, or sap, or just drink water. They really only live long enough as adults to breed (1-2 weeks), so there's not much need to feed.

Some aquatic crane fly larvae are thought to eat mosquito larvae, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a reliable source on that. Larvae can be either aquatic, semiaquatic, or terrestrial and what they eat depends on their environment, but mostly I've seen that they're detrivores, so they help with soil health like other decomposers. They're also a big source of food for other animals like predatory insects, spiders, frogs, fish, and birds. Probably bats, too, I imagine. So they do play an important role in ecosystems!

Also they can be really beautiful! Some of them even mimic wasps with pretty black and yellow stripes. I'll show you my fav species, though, the eastern phantom crane fly: