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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Diptera</title>
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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>Phantom Crane Fly</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/02/22/phantom-crane-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one abruptly appeared in the house on August 14, 2011 (Sandy said she saw it come in through the front door with her, but wasn&#8217;t able to catch it). It finally settled down on the kitchen window for photographs. This is clearly a Phantom Crane Fly, Bittacomorpha clavipes. There is nothing else quite like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deer Fly</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/02/04/deer-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fly that tried to bite me on the back of the head on July 20, 2011. She was about a centimeter long. Yes, I killed her. I&#8217;m not even a little bit sorry. She&#8217;s a pretty typical deer fly, subfamily Chrysopsinae, except for one thing: most deer flies seem to have these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosquitos on window screen</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/21/mosquitos-on-window-screen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 2, 2011, I was upstairs early in the morning in our home office, writing something for this very blog. It was kind of hot inside at the time, so I had the window over the desk open. After a bit I glanced out the window, and happened to notice these on the window [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Crane Fly, and Mating Crane Flies</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/18/green-crane-fly-and-mating-crane-flies/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/18/green-crane-fly-and-mating-crane-flies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a small (body about 5 mm long) crane fly that came to our porch light on July 4, 2011. This one caught my eye because of its almost emerald green color, which is pretty unusual for a crane fly, After searching around, it looks like there is only one local species of crane fly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giant Horsefly</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/11/05/giant-horsefly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 26, I was walking between buildings on the Michigan Tech campus when I saw this very large (and fortunately very dead) horsefly lying on the ground: How large was it? Well, its body was a full inch long, which for a fly is positively monstrous. This looks like one of the horseflies in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horsefly with Orange Abdomen</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/09/03/horsefly-with-orange-abdomen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this one lying dazed at the side of the road on July 13, 2011, about halfway up the hill to home. It caught my eye partly because of its size, but mostly because of the big orange patch on its abdomen It had probably had a close encounter with a car (which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swarming &#8220;Ghost&#8221; Midge</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/08/13/swarming-midge/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/08/13/swarming-midge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was bicycling home on May 21, 2011 when I suddenly caught a swarm of these little guys in the face. I tagged this as &#8220;Found in Teeth&#8221; because I had to spit out two or three of them afterwards, but those weren&#8217;t in any shape to photograph. I caught this one by going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldenrod Gall Flies</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/16/goldenrod-gall-flies/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/16/goldenrod-gall-flies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldenrod is very common on our property, with several large patches of hundreds of plants each. And, if one examines the goldenrod stems, a lot of them will have these nearly spherical galls about an inch in diameter: I cut one open last summer in mid-July to get a picture of what was inside. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fungus Gnats from the Woods</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/05/21/fungus-gnats-from-the-woods/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/05/21/fungus-gnats-from-the-woods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October of 2010, Sam and Rosie won a giant pumpkin in a raffle, which we carved and put out on Halloween. Afterwards, Sandy wheeled it out back to the edge of the woods for the deer to eat. Which they did over a period of several days, starting with ripping its face off: Sandy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crane Fly Pupa, and a Medley of Possible Adult Forms</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/04/09/crane-fly-pupa-and-a-medley-of-possible-adult-forms/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/04/09/crane-fly-pupa-and-a-medley-of-possible-adult-forms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandy and Sam were putting in a flower bed at the east end of the house at the end of the summer [1], and while digging it out they found this large, spiky thing. It was about an inch long, and pretty active, crawling along quite briskly and acting for all the world like a [...]]]></description>
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