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Crane Flies

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Crane fly, Delta Journal, Times-Picayune, 3-9-08 C-9

Delta Journal

by Bob Thomas

Those sultry days during winter and very early spring are the times when we are invaded by those large insects that look like huge mosquitoes. Some may giggle if you are anxious about these giants and tell you that they are mosquito-hawks, so named because they are thought to eat mosquitoes (which they don’t).