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