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Fletcher Wildlife Garden | all galleries >> Previous FWG blogs >> 2009 Blogs >> FWG blog: June 2009 > Phantom cranefly (Bittacomorpha sp)
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Phantom cranefly (Bittacomorpha sp)

What a hot day! For various reasons I couldn't get to FWG until noon, and it was so hot that I didn't stay very long. However, to my surprise I saw a phantom cranefly and nowhere near the pond! I am beginning to think that these craneflies are much more common than has been thought. Or maybe this is a good year for them. At any rate, I have seen them at quite a few locations lately, the FWG being the most recent. Chris, our summer employee in 2008, found the first phantom cranefly at FWG near the pond. I didn't manage to get a photo of the FWG one, but here is a shot from the west end of Ottawa taken yesterday.

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