#craneflies
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #craneflies from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-10 05:35 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-10 05:35 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #craneflies.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-10 05:35 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 30 public posts (spanning ~32658 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (27) · Catalan (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.3
Top of the latest posts
My teen and I were hiking out on the Wiley Trails this morning, looking for black raspberries, when I spotted something drifting along on the breeze. At first I thought it might be a fluffy seed pod, but it alighted on a leaf and I saw that
Yesterday I was lucky enough to spot this mating pair of ferrugenous craneflies (Nephrotoma ferruginea?) on a milkweed leaf. #craneflies #gardeninsects #wildlifegardening #yxe #prairieinsects #entomology #insects #bugs
Take a trip through the #fly #collection at the #Natural #History #Museum #London with #Erica #McAlister (Senior #Curator, #Flies and #Fleas). “There are more species of fly within the #United #Kingdom than there are mammal species on the w
What “craneflies” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediacraneflies
- nounAny of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.
A crane fly, also known as a mosquito eater, or a mosquito hawk, is a member of the dipteran superfamily Tipuloidea, which contains the living families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae, as well as several extinct families. "Winter crane flies", members of the family Trichoceridae, are sufficiently different from the typical crane flies of Tipuloidea to be excluded from the superfamily Tipuloidea, and are placed as their sister group within Tipulomorpha. Two other families of
“Crane fly” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#craneflies across platforms
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