They like fly on peoples face, i dont know why they come up on the face and it creeps me out, i have no idea why it comes inside of the house in the first place?
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I killed a Crane Fly because I thought i was a type of mosquito. Now I feel rather bad about it. After looking seeing how Crane Fly's look online.
I hate them too! They are the only animals I don't like. I know they are harmless, but they creep me out - as you say, they just fly at you and try to dangle all those horrible long spindly legs on your face, yuk!! I personally find the best way to get rid of them is to whack them with a rolled up newspaper or magazine. By the way, My Evil Twin is mistaken about their feeding habits. Crane flies do not eat mosquitoes - most do not eat at all in their adult form, since they only live a day or a couple of days at most. They simply mate and then die. If they do feed at all, it's just sipping some nectar from flowers. They do not have mouthparts capable of eating other insects.
They come inside the house looking for mosquitoes! Crane Flies are great mosquito hunters, in fact we call them skeeter eaters. I'm from the south, plenty of mosquitoes here and we love Crane Flies. They're totally harmless to people or anything else besides mosquitoes, and since mosquitoes are proven carriers of numerous deadly diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, and the dreaded Nile virus, I'd much rather have Crane Flies around me than mosquitoes. Do yourself a favor and learn a bit more about these fascinating and very helpful critters, I'm sure you'll be willing to cut them a little slack if you do. edit Leolupus is correct! It turns out after 40 years I was completely wrong ~ they do *not* eat mosquitoes. I have been informed by an expert (my father-in-law, who is an entomologist at Texas AM and laughed at me when I mentioned this question my answer) that adult Crane Flies eat flower nectar, decaying vegetation, seedling plants, mosquito larva (but not adult mosquitoes) or nothing at all depending on their species. They are, however, harmless to humans since they're totally unable to bite, though they're considered a pest by some farmers due to the habit of some species of dining on young crops. Oh well, sometimes you start out trying to teach someone a lesson and you end up learning one instead. Thanks for bringing up this subject, Bebe :-)
