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Anonymous
What is this? It's trapped between my window and my screen.
>> Anonymous
HOLY SHIT KILL IT WITH FIRE!
>> Anonymous
Crane fly
>> Anonymous
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I'm keeping my window shut, it has this butt that looks kinda sharp and stinger-like. What are crane flies known for?
>> Anonymous
>>241017
Eating brains.
>> 4tran
3 years ago, one of these fags flew into our dorm. Most of the people started panicking, but a brave Turk (not me) took the nearest pizza box and smacked the shit out of it.

>>241015is probably right. Wikipedia claims that this creature is harmless.

>>241017
Wikipedia says "The female abdomen also ends in a pointed ovipositor that may look a bit like a stinger but is completely harmless."
>> Anonymous
Actually that's a mosquito hawk, though I don't think they eat mosquitos
>> Anonymous
>>241017
Don't worry, they're harmless. We had tons of them when I was in New Zealand.
>> Anonymous
>>241030

Crane fly and mosquito hawk are the same.

This family is known for spawning dozens of regional nicknames, many of them sound totally absurd when you hear them for first time.
>> Anonymous
Things are harmless. They suck the juices out of plants.
>> Anonymous
It's properly called a crane fly. They are harmless, some species don't even have mouthparts, but some eat nectar. So unless your head is full of nectar you have nothing to worry about. Some people have completely retarded ideas about these things; that they're giant mosquitoes, they kill mosquitoes, etc.
>> Anonymous
I'm iterested in breed them, what the larva eat?
>> Anonymous
>>241068
human brains
>> Anonymous
>>241071
I think that I can get some...
>> Anonymous
Breed them? Move to the Pacific Northwest, you will get all the wild ones you want (if you don't spray your lawn in the fall) without having to bother to breed them.
The larvae climb up trees and om nom nom on leaves. In the fall they pupate, fly into houses and bumble around stupidly for hours until they are squashed, find another sexy cranefly and fuck for hours on end (tail to tail, sometimes flying united) and lay their eggs on ur lawn.
After they lay their eggs is your best chance to kill the population by spraying your lawn... unless of course you want 100s of little cranefly pets next fall.
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IT'S A GUNDAAAAM!
>> Anonymous
>>241017

The adult cranefly is utterly harmless, though annoying as it tends to fly into things (including your face for instance).

The larva is a garden pest that eats plant roots.
>> Anonymous
We get loads of them round here. Kill them when they're mating, it's the way everyone would like to die :P
>> Anonymous
>>241142

Only do it after both came, otherwise it would be very evil.
>> Anonymous
yep cranefly, we also call them daddy long legs here (ireland). I have no idea why.
>> Anonymous
It could be a Chinese mosquito.

My gf thought England was full of mosquitos because she mistook daddy-long-legs/craneflies for the bastardly big mozzies they have in China.

I missed the chance to seem all macho and daring by catching a "mosquito" in my hands though. :(
>> Anonymous
I. Fucking. HATE these things. They're my one irrational fear. I don't know how many times one flew between the computer screen and my face at night...

What's the deal with them being different sizes? The ones in my backyard that like to fly into my house are moderately sized and orange but the ones that hang around my school are gray motherfuckers that are like three-inches across.
>> Anonymous
These things show up at my house sometimes and scare the living daylights out of me. I know they're harmless, but they're HUGE and LOUD and I can't help but try and squash them.
>> Anonymous
We call 'em "mosquito hawks" around here.

They're harmless and they scare off smaller insects