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Field Notes

Description:

It is one-inch long (bigger than a five Philippine Peso coin), brown in color, and has no stripes. It looks exactly like ordinary mosquitoes but really big. I am not aware whether it sucks blood or not but I suspect it doesn't.

Habitat:

Found in our house. Near a well-forested hill slope and a river.

Notes:

This one-inch long mosquito is pretty common in our area, when I was growing up in the province of Bataan in the Philippines. But as I talked to my coworkers in Manila, it seems like no one is aware that there are mosquitoes this big. So when I saw one when I was at my hometown last weekend, I decided to take a quick photograph.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/dept/research/systematics/thai/
I would also say crane fly, Tipulidae.
Wow Thanks! So it isn't a mosquito? But it looks exactly like one.
It's a type of Crane fly

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