People mistake ovipositors for stingers so often it might be worthwhile to point out that the stingers of bees and wasps evolved from ovipositors, which is why, incidentally, male insects don’t have stingers. Reply bugman October 2, 2011 1:46 pm Hi Jim, Thank you for providing this inf...
with their bodies being grayish-brown and lacking the vibrant colors found in the Tiger Crane Fly. Additionally, they don’t have the black stripe that runs along the abdomen of the Tiger Crane Fly.