There Are These Huge Mosquito Looking Bugs Flying All Over...What Are They?

Question

Some are saying they are the females laying eggs...some are saying they are mosquito eaters and they are doing good eating all of the mosquitos. Some say they are males. Which ones bite? What are these big ones?

Answer 1

The big ones are not mosquitoes, they are crane flies. They don't bite. They don't eat mosquitoes either, though they are called mosquito hawks. There are different species of crane flies. Some of them drink flower nectar. Some of them don't eat at all as adults, they just mate and lay eggs. Their larvae are called leatherjackets. This is a reddish-brown leathery-looking larva that lives in the soil and eats roots. Sometimes a species of crane fly is numerous enough to damage lawns, in their larval form. Basically, they are pretty harmless though.

Answer 2

I think they are Crane flies. Mosquito's are usually not that large. Crane flies rarely prey on mosquito's and they don't bite humans. Unlike mosquito's cranes flies are weak and tend to wobble in weired patterns during flight. They can be easily caught unlike mosquito's.

Answer 3

Those are mosquito eaters. I hate them but my husband won't kill them because they eat the mosquitoes. He catches them and puts them outside.

Answer 4

Could be cane flies, could be may flies. Look them up. Finding your own answers through field research and observation is fun.

Answer 5

I've been told that they are females and that they don't bite. But, I think they are gross and scary compared to the small biting ones.