A photo of two tan colored craneflies mating while resting on a light blue painted surface. The female cranefly on top, is much larger than the male beneath her.

Happy freaky (crane) #Flyday!😂

#Craneflies, "gettin it on!" Possibly in subgenus Triplicitipula (that's a mouthful...)

#Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #macro.

#Insects
#Diptera
#Tipulids
#Cerambycidae
#bugSex
#MacroPhotography
#invertebrates

You can see why they get their vernacular names of 'Tiger Crane Flies" from🤔🙂 This, Nephrotoma flavescens is the 'Primrose Tiger' (Stubbs, 2021). Very mobile around willow tree in the garden, not cooperating for a decent photo but not a problem in terms of species ID🙃 #HumberheadLevels #Tipulids