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Metallic Green Eyes - _TNY_0236

This is a crane fly (Tipuloidea sp.), but I don't know the specific species. It still had very prettty green eyes though.

 

Crane flies belong to the mosquitoes, but they are cokpletely harmless and are physically incapable of doing anything to a human except perhaps tickle.a bit.

 

Their principal defense of sacraficing a leg says a bit about how scary these are.

 

They are sometimes referred to as "daddy long legs" which is a bit unfortunate as the same name is also used for harvestmen (the order Opiliones) and also spiders in the Pholcidae Family.

 

 

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Uploaded on January 1, 2023
Taken on August 8, 2022