CLOSED: Can someone point me in the right direction?

Fayette, IA(Zone 4b)

Please help me identify these insects mating in my wood mulch. TIA.

Thumbnail by MartyJo
Minot, ND

These are snipe flies (family Rhagionidae); they look like Chrysopilus thoracicus, known as the golden-backed snipe fly -
http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/62314211 and
http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/62314213

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