What's the deal with the Daddy Long Legs Is a Crane fly yes ?? Are there different types ??

The reason I ask is I thought they were an autumn thing ?? I am seeing loads of them at the moment though when out fishing and most of the ones I am seeing are Massive !!

Also do they all hatch out from underground or do some come from water ??

Sorry if I am seeming to be thick like but if you don't ask you never learn .....

Cheers for any answers

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Cheers Danny

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There are currently 4256 species of crane fly Tipulidae (though not all in the UK). The ones you're seeing now are not the ones you see in large numbers through early autumn. They hatch from a grub called a leatherjacket which lives in the ground, though some apparently do live in the water.

I have about 14,000 Tipulidae species worldwide with 318 in the British Isles.

Some are aquatic and some terrestial.

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Oh so it seems there is most certainly more than one species

Thanks for the answers . I am still a little confuddled though , what type are the ones I am seeing now ?? How can I find out ??? Should I try and catch one ?? ( without falling out of the boat !! ) and take a pic and post it on here ???

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Maybe best thing to do Danny....if you do manage a pic ill be interesred to see the outcome....often wondered on diff types and time of year myself but never looked into it.

i know where your comming from danny, seen lods of them in last week on sheelin also if you walk the rushie fields around the lake their are huge numbers of them you think it was august or september have not seen this in my 30 years of fishing the lake their is something not right here maybe time to try fishing the daddy you could do worst.

Hi blackpearl Yeah you could well be right as the fish are not exactly throwing themselves onto the hook by other methods at the moment are they !!

Right off out there now , will report back laters and maybe have a picture of one of said beasties !

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A couple of pictures from last weekend and this weekend.

A mating pair from last weekend, not sure of the species, possibly the same as below.



A single male of the Spotted Crane Fly (Nephrotoma appendiculata) I think, flies May-August.

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Seen loads last friday on the river and few more over the weekend. Bet they were shivering the last few days had to de ice the car this morn and the hills were white again