All of us who are aware that thecraneflyis the "daddy long legs," or leather-jacket, are aware that the nuisance is prevalent over the whole country.
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Is the correct name for the lesser known and wrongly applied mosquito eater orcranefly.
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True flies are written as two words, such ascranefly, robber fly, bee fly, moth fly, and fruit fly.
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It mainly eats invertebrates such as caterpillars, crane flies, and spiders.
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The adults are slender, fragile flies, vaguely reminiscent of small crane flies.
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Instead, the stomach contents of the few specimens examined consist solely of freshwater invertebrates, such as scirtid water beetles, crane flies, mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies.
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The larvae develop rapidly within the crane flies before pupating in the soil.
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The food range includes spiders, crane flies, moths, mayflies, dragonflies, damsel flies, grasshoppers, earwigs, lacewings, caddisflies, flies, beetles, sawflies, bees, wasps and ants.
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