Why are Crane Fly called Daddy Long Legs?
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Well, we have Crane Flies and Daddy Long legs in the US, but they're not the same thing.  If your crane fly is the same as ours (looks like a giant mosquito), probably because they have really long legs.\n\nA Daddy Long Legs in the US (also called a Harvestman) resembels a spider but has really long spindly legs, kinda like a crane fly (but there's 8 of them and no wings).
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crazy leg hair of destiny
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The mosquito hawk is an insect that is vegetarian. They are very common in moist areas in north America.  They are quite large, almost 2 inches long.  Just a couple of days ago as I was sitting at my computer, one flew in front of my face, legs dangling right before my eyes. Startled me! They are harmless insects.  If you'd like to see a pic of one, and read more, check out this site:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly
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They are a disgusting type of fly.  You usually see them joined end to end during "love bug" season and they are everywhere!  Your windshield gets plastered with them.  We were in Florida one time during the height of love bug season (September)...never again!  I am not aware of any purpose they have unless it is irritating people.\n\nFor more info and to see what they look like:\nhttp://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/uc/uc-009.html\nhttp://www.floridaenvironment.com/programs/fe00508.htm
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Its called Ecdysis.Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle or the exoskeleton.Higher insects have only 4-5 moultings whereas lower insects have till 15.As the exoskeleton is hard its difficult for the insect to grow so it moults periodically to grow.They grow a new exoskeleton later.
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LOL, you're talking about a Daddy-long-legs. It's a spider. They usually cluster up in massive groups around water during the summer. Go to a rest area in a park sometimes. They'll be millions of them.\n\nBut never fear, they don't bite, though they are poisonous but their fangs are too fragile for humans. Boys usually scare girls with them in school- I did! \n\nWarning: Don't smash them. They stink when you do!
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I have always favored the butterfly opsed to any other insect.  however if to be a butterfly i would have to go through the evolving part i would say know.  I have stepped on many a caterpiller.  oops!  i have a tatoo of a butterfly that used to be a spider.  I callit my spiderfly.  my fiance calls me his iron butterfly.  cause i am strong and yet gental.
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This is a myth. Look at the entomology website from the U of California Riverside.\nhttp://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
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clipped from www.wisegeek.com\n\nFor sheer length you can't beat a female Giant Walking Stick (Phobaeticus serratipes). Found in Malaysia and Singapore, looking like an assemblage of twigs, it is perfectly camouflaged among the branches where it lives. The longest specimen on record was an amazing 21.8" (55.5cm). Some people even keep these huge insects as pets.\n\nThe Giant Walking Stick may be long, but it doesn't have much mass. For that you have to turn to the giant scarab beetles. Among them, entomologists have settled on 5 contenders:\n\nThe South American Longhorn Beetle (Titanus giganteus) of French Guiana makes perhaps the most impressive showing with a body length over 6.5" (16.7cms).\n\nA shorter but far thicker competitor is the Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon) of South America. Males can grow to 5.3" (13.5cms) long by 1.6" (4cms) thick. \n\nThe Elephant Beetle (Megasoma elephas) found in Mexico and Venezuela has a shorter body than the Aceton, but a longer snout, making its total recorded length 5.4" (13.7cms).\n\nBringing up the rear are two species of Goliathus: regius and goliatus, both measuring in at 4.3" (11cms).\n\nIn 1874 the Rev. J. G. Wood published Insects Abroad, in which he claimed to have in his possession a 9" (22.8cm) South American Longhorn Beetle (Titanus). A specimen this large has never been documented since, and no one is quite sure what method he used to measure the bug. Therefore the accepted recorded length remains at 6.5" (16.7cms), which still leads the top five contenders.\n\nAlthough the Giant Walking Stick and scarab beetles win for length and mass, for sheer weight you'll have to turn to the giant wetas (Deinacrida heteracantha) of New Zealand. A pregnant female can top the scales at over 2 ounces (71gms)! \n\nThere are well over 1 million insect species known, with an estimated 10 million still undocumented. However, the title of world's biggest insect remains a matter of what constitutes "biggest" to you: length, mass or weight!
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If it has no visible head (except darker mandibles) and no legs, it is a fly larva, most likely Brachycera, the most common sub order of flies (house flies, blow flies, etc.). It is difficult to determine the exact species, or even family for that matter without seeing it under a scope with a key. It is most likely some species of flesh fly or blow fly, their larvae tend to be very mobile, althought they typically dont travel very far, so the source of your maggot problem may be or possibly was not too long ago, just outside the area where they are coming in by. If they depleted their food resource, typically rotting flesh or dung, they will sometimescrawl away in search of more food....\n\nhope this helps!
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I've always wondered that too.  I've noticed that more people from the south call them waterbugs.  I call those little armadillo bugs water bugs and freak people out when I say I had one in my house.  :)
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The so-called "Sausage Fly" is actually the reproductive male of a group of African ants called driver ants (Subfamily Dorylinae).\n\nIn this group of ants, only the males have wings and fly from their home nest in search of wingless females (queens) from other nests.\n\nThey are called sausage flies because their abdomen is enlongated and swollen, filled with sperm.  They are the largest form of any ant known.\n\nThe other driver ants, that make up the majority of the species, look more like normal ants (although they are eyeless).  Some of them have several different sizes of worker ant, and the largest workers often act as specialized soldiers.\n\nHere is a page about them http://antbase.org/ants/africa/clog7.htm\n\nIt includes a good picture of the male 'sausage fly' form, as well as pictures of the more typically ant looking workers farther down the page.
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eeeewwww---nasty looking little buggers-- chiggers are also known as harvest mites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_mite or Chigoe fleas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chigoe_flea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chigger hope they don't fly.
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Its commonly known as "white man syndrom" or from the Latin White Peniscis Smallicis. Dont be alarmed. Many of us white man have chased after the Dream of have whats known as "The Big Daddy" many have tried, but many have failed. But yet we keep searching, only to finly die with the same tiny Tally Wacker we were born with.
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the shank is the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.\n\n'longshanks' is a rather old-fashioned way of teasing someone for being tall (in more modern english tall people are called 'lofty').
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Because Dog was already taken. \n\nActually, as I recall it's because the wings of a butterfly has a tendency of picking up alot of pollen, and much like when you were a kid and you took a dandelion and brushed it against your skin it would leave a yellow (buttery color) residue, a butterflys wings would do the same. A buttery color dust would be left behind, so I guess they connected the color of the dust to the idea that this thing flies.
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IT DEPENDS OH HOW HIGH THE CEILING IS IT LOOKS TO ME THAT THE FLY HOVERS IN A SORT OF SWINGING  FORM THEN FLIPS BEING THAT ITS LEGS ARE ALL STICKY FROM ALL THE REGURGITATING