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Large Crane fly or mosquito eater

Tipulidae

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35.1828, -80.8576

Field Notes

Description:

2 inch wing span, brown

Habitat:

Urban home

Notes:

Found dead hanging on shade inside house caught between shade and window, we call them mosquito eaters but they don't eat mosquitoes or much of anything because adults just live long enough to mate then die

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PublishedAugust 17, 2015

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