Months sighted in garden
Tiger cranefly
Nephrotoma flavipalpis
An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015
Diptera: craneflies
Yellow-orange cranefly almost 2 cm in length with discrete black wedges down its thorax; back of head with red-orange hairs. Wings clear with a black stigma and no clouding along adjacent veins. Found sheltering in greenhouse in mid June and early July.