Looks like a crane fly. They lay eggs in the grass which hatch in warm sunshine after rain. Usually high summer.
best Simon On 19 Aug 2011, at 09:15, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > > help, need insect identification > > http://www.alansondheim.org/swaner20.jpg > http://www.alansondheim.org/swaner21.jpg > > found near Park City, UT, maybe a mayfly but without the cerci and other > identifying features. obviously not a damselfly or dragonfly or alderfly > or stonefly. I think it was close to dying, probably already mated. there > were swallows and swifts around. this is the only one of these I've seen. > > thanks - > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs | [email protected] | www.littlepig.org.uk [email protected] | Edinburgh College of Art | University of Edinburgh www.eca.ac.uk/circle | www.elmcip.net | www.movingtargets.co.uk _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
