#tipuldae

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scientific illustration of a snow fly (Tipulidae: Chionea spp), a genus of wingless crane flies that live on the snow on mountainsides. as adults they don't eat anything besides slurpees snowmelt water, and have a bad habit of losing their limbs to the ice but don't generally seem to care. they also often harbor non-parasitic nematodes around their necks