Sixspot cranefly
Limonia nubeculosa
The sixspot cranefly is a crane fly with long thin legs and dark patterns on the front edge of its wings. Its yellow legs have three dark rings each, like bracelets. It lives in European forests.
Lives in
Forests in Europe, most common in Central Europe
Length
0.9 to 1.1 cm (0.35 to 0.43 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Crane flies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Grown-up crane flies live only a short time and hardly eat at all.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 100 seconds⚡moves 93 times its own body length every second
How big is Sixspot cranefly compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
Sixspot cranefly about 3.7 km/h (2.3 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It flies from April to November.
2
In the hot summer it may rest in caves, sometimes in big crowds.
3
Its body is about 1 centimetre long, but its legs are much longer.
you asked
Most asked questions about Sixspot cranefly
?Do crane flies bite?
No. Crane flies are harmless and cannot bite people.
?Where does the sixspot cranefly live?
In forests in Europe, and in summer sometimes in caves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Limonia nubeculosa
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Limoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Limoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- Short-palped cranefly
Where the facts come from
- Limonia nubeculosa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by This image is created by user B. Schoenmakers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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