Cranefly

• Develop over a period of six weeks to five years
• Close to 300 species in North America
• Usually live in the stream bed

• Up to four inches long
• Head is usually retracted so the front end appears round
• Fleshy, plump, rounded segmented body
• Its digestive track (internal organs) can be seen moving back and forth as it crawls
• No legs
• Back end usually has several extentions or finger-like lobes
• Milky, light-brown, gray or greenish in color

• digestive track
• extensions
• lobes
• retracted
• segmented
• species
• stream bed