Garden Pests and Diseases: Friend or Foe #3, 1 by Night_Bloom

Night_Bloom wrote:
Continuing the thread concerning bugs in the garden. Post your questions and pictures and I'll try to answer them. I'll also continue posting pictures of beneficial and harmless insects that might be found in the garden.

Here's a link to thread #2 - http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/509615/ . And here's a link to the first Friend or Foe thread - http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/503459/ .

To start us off, here's an interesting critter called a hanging fly (family Bittacidae), because it often hangs by its front feet. It uses the back feet to catch small insects. Because of their long legs, hanging flies resembles crane flies (family Tipulidae), but crane flies do not catch prey with their back legs. Here's a hanging fly that has caught an insect by my porchlight.