orange Daddy Long Legs/Dragonfly Thing?

thats the best way i can describe it but i dont think it was either of the two! a weird lookin' thing flew in the back door last night & sent us all scurrying for cover it was about the size of a large Daddy Long Legs but was a bright vivid orange colour (really bright orange...like "you've been tangoed" sorta orange) & very fast moving & flying....gave us all the heebie jeebies to say the least!...anyone know what it might have been?

by the way we didn't kill it, my bro *very bravely* trapped it in a glass & *even more bravely* flung it, glass & all, as far as he could out the window...he wasn't going out with it incase it flew back & landed on himi tried to take a picture of it when it was in the glass but it wouldn't stay still (the thing moved really really fast) so none of the pics turned out

 

afraid not Andy, it had a much smaller head with beady black eyes & its wings didn't stick out like that....but it was that sorta orange!

 

Was it more like this? Some crane flies have been seen that are bright orange

 

I hate crane flies. They look like flying spiders to me.

 

I hate them too. And their larvae which munches up the lawn!

 

:lol: she eats butterflies and moths, and any spiders that are daft enough to show themselves in the house, but she never seems to bother with them

 

he is kinda similar, the colour is similar too but im afraid thats not him either the one we saw had wings that didn't stick out like that but were folded over his body (ye'know like a flies wings do) & his legs were shorter too

that dude in the pic is absolutely gross by the way!

 

I'm not a bug person at all! The only ones I like are bees and ladybirds :lol: oh! I saw a ladybird on my rose a couple of days ago!

 

Could it have been a Fungus Gnat?.....

 

No, they're only 1mm long, unless its a Chernobyl one

 

Well the picture looked big in my book

 

How about this one, Ichneumonidae sp, a parasitic wasp (photo borrowed from Wild About Britain web page)

 

oh that sure looks like it! is it big though HsuH....Daddy Long Legs size?

im like that too! there's only a few that don't creep me out tbh with the exception of Butterflies, Caterpillars, Bee's, Hoverflies & of course Ladybirds i quite like knowing what this or that bug is though...& i do like looking at them too but only as long as they don't move a muscle, if they move im gone!