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Snowsquatch	August 31st, 2012, 12:25 am
Northern Ontario Canada Posts: 5	I found this in the house last night could I have some help to identify it
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Taxon	August 31st, 2012, 4:51 am
Site Editor Plano, TX Posts: 1284	Hi Showsquatch- Sure, it's called a crane fly, probably of True Fly family Tipulidae. Some are aquatic, but the majority are terrestrial. It may well have come from the soil beneath your lawn, where they live as larvae feeding on grass roots, turning your grass brown in spots before pupating, and then emerging in as adults in their winged form.
	Roger Rohrbeck www.FlyfishingEntomology.com
Sayfu	August 31st, 2012, 10:10 am
Posts: 560	And aquatic, or terrestrial I do believe all crawl out and pupate in the soil. Never have I caught a fish on a crane fly adult imitation...unless maybe my inability to size my hackle properly was taken for an adult, and my drag free drift skittered a bit. :)
GONZO	August 31st, 2012, 11:23 am
Site Editor "Bear Swamp," PA Posts: 1681	Snowsquatch, your crane fly appears to be Pedicia albivitta, also known as the Giant Eastern Crane Fly. As far as I know, the larvae of this species are aquatic (photos of larva identified as this species here: http://www.troutnut.com/specimen/442), and it usually has two adult flight periods, one in the spring and another in the late summer/fall.
Snowsquatch	September 3rd, 2012, 4:47 pm
Northern Ontario Canada Posts: 5	Thanks all for your help, I was thinking it was a crane fly but the usual variety I find are much smaller, Now to come up with a new pattern to tie?
	"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves"
Entoman	September 4th, 2012, 4:53 pm
Site Editor Northern CA & ID Posts: 2604	Snowsquatch - Click on the link to check this out. It's a long thread, so scroll down a ways to look at the pattern. http://www.troutnut.com/topic/1430/Crane-fly-pattern#30182
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