Happy #WorldCraneFliesDay to everyone!!!

Always a fabulous find, the yellow halteres on this otherwise mostly dark fly are a help with identification.

Just arrived at our holiday accommodation and the first thing I saw on arrival was this Tipula oleracea. Fitting for #WorldCraneFliesDay

New maps available for 'targeting revisits' for a range of recording schemes. Maps show pink 1 km squares that have past records but no repeat surveys, and adding records from these squares helps make data available for monitoring change. Info at brc.ac.uk/article/target…

Look who came to see me in the night! Attracted to light in Cheshire. Female Tipula maxima. Having not seen one before, this is my fourth in a week, previous three at the Dipterists Forum weekend near Oxford. Spectacular! Cranefly Recording Scheme #FlyFriday

Check out these useful resources to help identify your moth trap intruders👏🪲 BioLinks also offers a cranefly identification service for specimens caught in light traps 💡🪰 All you have to do is post them to us! 📬 👉fscbiodiversity.uk/blog/craneflie… #CranefliesToLight Cranefly Recording Scheme

Its #30DaysWild so lets have 30 days of #FLIES A slightly blurry Epiphragma ocellare but all the features to identify it are there. Banded legs, striped abdomen & note the little circle patterns on the wings. This is a Limoniidae - Limonid Cranefly, & these like the woods

Common in swampy places at the moment is Tipula unca. Here is a male - combination of the patterned wings (particularly towards the end) and the turned up male genitalia. #fieldrecording #craneflies

This is female Tipula fascipennis- reduced cerci (compared to lunata) and white stripes (hum 7 nation army 🎵🎵🎸) next time you see one) the full width of the wings #fieldrecording #craneflies

Mating pair of Tiger Cranefly (Nephrotoma flavescens) observed on #TunstallHills 19.6.22 🙌 Craneflies (Tipulidae) must be very under-recorded across the UK 🤔 & would encourage you to use fab resources at dipterists.org.uk/cranefly-schem…

BioLinks have teamed up with Cranefly Recording Scheme to increase cranefly records in the UK to learn more about their behaviour 💭 Try to identify these moth trap intruders yourself or post them to us and we will identify them for you! 📮 🔬#CranefliesToLight fscbiodiversity.uk/blog/craneflie…

@FSCBioLinks have teamed up with Cranefly Recording Scheme to increase cranefly records in the UK to learn more about their behaviour 💭 Try to identify these moth trap intruders yourself or post them to us and we will identify them for you! 📮 🔬#CranefliesToLight fscbiodiversity.uk/blog/craneflie…

Hi Sophie Pavelle absolutely loved listening to F-M-N though I know it’s not aimed at me as a long time professional ecologist. Great that Craneflies got a mention and should you ever need to know more give us a shout. Would recommend it to anyone #ForgetMeNot

Fabulous thread here from Buglife. 👏👏👏👏

Time to fight for the future of our wildlife.

From the largest to the smallest species of #craneflies from #Catalonia (and probably from Europe): the formidable Tipula maxima and the minute & no less amazing Tasiocera murina, both sharing space and time in the Pyrenees

Tipula paludosa still hanging on, this a female from a new tetrad in the East Riding of Yorkshire