@alexwild What a beautiful #insect. So many unusual, extraordinary animals out there ... first time I saw a snake fly (not a snake, not a fly) I had to count legs as a sanity check.

Xanthostigma xanthostigma https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85468170 observed in Cambridge, UK.
#snakefly #Raphidiidae #iNaturalist #entomology