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Photo#17397
Copyright © 2005 bughunter
Female Crane Fly
Dry Ridge, Grant County, Kentucky, USA
May 7, 2005
Contributed by
bughunter
on 15 May, 2005 - 4:53pm
Last updated 25 April, 2006 - 11:33am
Female Crane fly
It looks like a wingless female Crane fly (family Tipulidae)
Here in Europe we have some of those, and in the USA it is the same according to the manual of Nearctic Diptera!
If this animal is bigger than 8-10 mm it is in the genus Tipula! Greetings,
Gerard Pennards
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Gerard Pennards
, 16 May, 2005 - 2:39am
cropped
We cropped this image and resubmitted it so you could see what people were asking for. Feel free to resubmit the old image if you prefer that. It is certainly your image to do with as you please, not ours.
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john and jane balaban
, 15 May, 2005 - 6:36pm
crop & resubmit
As Jim also suggested under
yesterday's photo
, it would help if you cropped images such as this one so we see more of the insect and less of the background. When resubmitting, replace the original image with the cropped one. Thanks.
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Robin McLeod
, 15 May, 2005 - 5:41pm
Super-macro?
Do you use a digital camera? Does it have a super-macro function that lets you photograph things 2 inches away or less? These long-distance shots are very discouraging for anyone who would like to help you identify something. You've got to either enlarge and crop the photo so that the insect takes up almost the full height and breadth of the frame, or else use your super-close-up function to achieve the same thing.
btw, I often shoot *dozens* of shots of a single insect trying to get at least one really good photo that still contains a lot of detail when I enlarge and crop it.
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Jim McClarin
, 15 May, 2005 - 5:17pm