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Mosquito with same size of a Pterodactylus! Don´t Kill it!

arturo garcia

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If you got to see on the way or in your albergue dorm room a huge mosquito with very long legs, Don't Kill it! It´s called TIBULA! , They don't bite and neither take blood from you, like regular mosquitoes! Let them live, nature need them alive to keep life balance!
 
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This post will be less puzzling if we consider there might be a misspelling. Consider being kind to any "tipula" you might encounter. Also known as "crane flies" and probably many other names.

As someone on Reddit said "This is a tipula, not a moskito, it feeds from plants' nectar. So don't kill it you find it, just throw it outside."

I suppose this thread could be tagged to go in the "dogs and other animals" sub-section.

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I posted a picture of tipula. I would want to be sure of what it was before shutting my eyes in bed. On the other hand, if I find a tibula in the room or dorm, I am, for sure, out the door in a flash!
 

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Yes, because the summer have been too long!
 
Isn't that what in the UK would be called a daddy-long-legs?

Definitely not a mosquito, just mildly annoying if they skitter noisily into things and brush past.

I've been more alarmed by the number and size of the giant waspy hornety insects I have seen in Spain.

Am just hoping my latest crop of bites is from mosquitoes and not bedbugs - have not seen any of the latter, but have seen the former.
 
My mother always used to call them flydi binders. Harmless creatures but quite difficult to throw outside without hurting them.

And as regards bedbugs - after all the current fuss and bother in the UK press about the problems with them in France, I was pleasantly relieved that I saw no sign of them on my latest 2 weeks on the Frances from Burgos to Leon, and I can assure you that I looked quite hard for them every evening!
 
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In Texas, we call them mosquito hawks. They contribute to the ecosystem because the larvae (leatherjackets) feed on decaying organic material and help in the decomposition process. Birds eat the mature ones. Two-way serving the system.
 
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Bill's_Walking said:
Looks like a crane fly to me. Big, harmless and non biting. We have them here in the States as well.
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Get over run by them about This time of year in Tucson. Can’t get rid of them fast enough, they are all over the place. Definitely not an endangered species here.
 
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