Bane of Snalis - _TNY_4685
I typically tag my bug shots with a lot of tags, including the scientific, Swedish, English and German names.
In doing this I've noticed that Swedish and German names tend to be more descriptive while English names often are more "poetic" in lack of a better word. Kind of like a moth which Swedish name translates into "white-mottled park geometrid moth" - and the English name is "The Phoenix".
So, what has all of this to do with this funky-looking fly I came across in the Hemmesta sjöäng wetland? Well, it's the exception to the rule! The scientific name (it's not called the "Latin name!") is Sepedon spinipes and in English, this is a brown long-horned snailkiller - a name that manages to describe both appearance and significant behaviour in one fell swoop!
The name doesn't refer directly to the adult flies, instead it's the the larvae which attack aquatic pulmonate snails.
Unfortunately this one lacks a common name in both Swedish and German.
Bane of Snalis - _TNY_4685
I typically tag my bug shots with a lot of tags, including the scientific, Swedish, English and German names.
In doing this I've noticed that Swedish and German names tend to be more descriptive while English names often are more "poetic" in lack of a better word. Kind of like a moth which Swedish name translates into "white-mottled park geometrid moth" - and the English name is "The Phoenix".
So, what has all of this to do with this funky-looking fly I came across in the Hemmesta sjöäng wetland? Well, it's the exception to the rule! The scientific name (it's not called the "Latin name!") is Sepedon spinipes and in English, this is a brown long-horned snailkiller - a name that manages to describe both appearance and significant behaviour in one fell swoop!
The name doesn't refer directly to the adult flies, instead it's the the larvae which attack aquatic pulmonate snails.
Unfortunately this one lacks a common name in both Swedish and German.