Phantom craneflies in mating posture, based on wing venation Ptychoptera contaminata. Belvoir Park Forest 22/5/22 - also to confuse, an Ichnuemon that was hanging around Cranefly Recording Scheme Biodiversity Ireland

Dr Erica McAlister Dipterists Forum AES - amentsoc.org Cranefly Recording Scheme Royal Entomological Society Buglife Found 2 big girls at a streamy, damp N Welsh woodland trap site 2 mornings ago. The giants are back this year. V interesting info, thanks.

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…

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…

Dictenidia bimaculata (Twin-mark Comb-horn) continue to emerge from a small alder log collected back in the winter. Beautiful female this morning. #craneflies YNU Cranefly Recording Scheme Dipterists Forum

Confirmation if this is White-Footed Ghost Cranefly (Dolichopeza albipes)? Drew my attention when flying with those white tarsi dangling. Co.Fermanagh, no prev records Cranefly Recording Scheme Dipterists Forum

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