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We have them around here too..
VFTs often catch them with those long legs hanging out of the trap!
Those legs look very similar to "Daddy long legs" legs..I wonder if they are closely related?..I do know that "Daddy long legs" are not technically spiders, even though most people incorrectly assume they are..
Crane flies eat mosquitos; they're good. Just don't try to catch them, because they do bite when provoked and it hurts like hell. Has anyone read any Edward Gorey?
O what has become of Millicent Frastley?
Is there any hope that she's still alive?
Why haven't they found her? It's rather ghastly
To think that the child was not yet five.
Those things can bite?? When I lived in Canada they were all over the place and I would pick them up all the time and put them back outside (if they were in the house I mean) and I never got bit. I guess I was lucky! I haven't seen them here in FL though.
We have them here in south carolina as well... we call them mosquito hawks (more commonly skeeter hawks) because of the general misconception that they prey on mosquitos. They do not bite, as I used to play with them (usually pop the legs off) when I was young.
I never got bit either Niki. We call them flycatchers, probobly wrongly I suppose. Ya, it's weird Scotty that the Daddy Long legs are like giant mites ! Either way they're both cool when the legs are sticking out of the vft trap and wiggling !!
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