Mosquitoes and crane flies are often confused for one another because they look similar at first glance, and they live in ...

Many species of herons, but only two species of cranes, are found in Alabama. Herons usually are seen in ponds or creeks, ...

Crane flies typically spend much of their lives in a larval stage, but when there is a wet winter, with plenty of damp soil, they will emerge as adults.

These are crane flies: not the typical daddy longlegs we see in August, but an earlier-flying species, Tipula rufina. Its larvae consume decaying plant matter, but the adults do not feed at all.

A crane fly lands on an Owl's Clover (Orthocarpus densiflorus), April 25, 2023 at Carrizo Plain National Monument during the "Superbloom" wildflower explosion, near Santa Margarita, California.

Winter crane fly. This type of crane fly, species Trichocera annulata, is a cousin of the common crane fly but belongs to a different family. It’s smaller and often called daddy long legs, not ...

A couple of weeks ago, the doorbell-camera app on my phone flashed an alert: There is motion at your front door. This was puzzling. I wasn’t expecting a delivery, and my home, a quarter-mile off ...

Crane flies are abundant because of our mild Texas winter and warm February Crane flies, often called mosquito hawks or mosquito eaters, don't eat mosquitoes and don't bite or sting ...

Contrary to their nicknames, "skeeter eaters" -- otherwise known as crane flies -- don't actually eat mosquitoes. But they do serve a realy ecological purpose!

Much of a crane fly’s eating happens during its larval stage. And, Ravenscraft explained, even if adult crane flies could eat mosquitos, they likely wouldn’t live long enough to do so.