Crane flies, we’ve all seen them awkwardly bumping into walls, ceilings and windows, gathered around porch lights or stuck to your window screens. In our area, they commonly known as mosquito hawks or ...

Whether you call them crane flies or "skeeter" hawks, the spindly-legged flying insect is an annoyance to humans and a plaything for pets every spring. Crane flies begin to emerge from grassy areas ...

Name: Tipula oleracea and Tipula paludosa. Alias: Common crane fly, European crane fly, mosquito hawk, or skeeter eater. Although crane flies have the title of “mosquito hawk” none of them merit the ...

Mosquito hawks, aka crane flies, are one of the first insects that show up in and around homes in the spring. An inch or more across, they hang around the porch lights in the evening, looking casual ...

SAN ANTONIO — Are you noticing a lot of bugs that look like giant mosquitos flying around outside your home? These insects look like colossal mosquitos combined with daddy longlegs, but they're not ...

It's spring in Texas and that means baseball, bluebonnets and unfortunately, bugs. Incorrectly referred to as mosquitoes, these large flies appear in droves in early spring but the long-legged crane ...

Crane flies are large tan-colored fragile flies with long legs. Adults and larvae do not feed on mosquitoes. Larval forms of crane flies are grey-brown cylindrical larvae which may bear fleshy lobes ...

Have you been noticing a few extra long-legged insects flying around in the past few weeks? You aren't alone. Crane flies, also commonly called mosquito hawks, have recently been swarming across parts ...

"They are related to mosquitoes in that mosquitoes are also flies—both in the Order Diptera," Molly Keck. senior program specialist and integrated pest management entomologist for Texas A&M AgriLife, ...