What insect has long legs and short wings

Hornbill570486 · Nov 26, 2009

I would appreciate if someone can identify it

The photo is in the blog site in my profile

Thanks !
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miick · Nov 26, 2009

Got lots of them in Google Images.

Andrew Cary · Nov 27, 2009

Looks to me like a crane fly of some kind hard to say what kind without knowing how big it is and where it was found (there are supposedly over 14,000 species).

They are typically harmless.

BTW It is missing a leg.
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DjD_a700 · Nov 27, 2009

We call them "Skeeter Eaters" around here, they are harmless and indeed eat misquotes...

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Hornbill570486 · Nov 27, 2009

Now I konw it is crane fly

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ciaran33 · Nov 27, 2009

"Daddy long legs", which is another name for a crane fly though the ones around here look a bit different. Great blog, by the way.

Gordon S Walker · Nov 28, 2009

DjD_a700 said:
We call them "Skeeter Eaters" around here, they are harmless and indeed eat misquotes...

Mosquitos even, then to mosquitos the crane fly is anything but harmless !!

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lbuclk= · Nov 28, 2009

Andrew Cary said:
Looks to me like a crane fly of some kind hard to say what kind without knowing how big it is and where it was found (there are supposedly over 14,000 species).

They are typically harmless.

BTW It is missing a leg.
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springbock · Nov 28, 2009

You gotta like anything that eats mosquitoes! It looks very similar to this guy (southern Ontario, Canada)

Gordon S Walker said:
DjD_a700 said:

We call them "Skeeter Eaters" around here, they are harmless and indeed eat misquotes...

Click to expand...

Mosquitos even, then to mosquitos the crane fly is anything but harmless !!

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poorsh · Nov 28, 2009

Too bad Noah didn't swat the two mosquitoes on the Ark!
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Gordon S Walker · Nov 29, 2009

springbock wrote:

That indeed is a crane fly. Notice the counterbalance on the body, watch a video of them flying and you can see how the balances work. Pretty amazing really.

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Hornbill570486 · Nov 29, 2009

How that photo is taken of an insect in flight

is beyond me !

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