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Interesting! I always just thought they were the males of whatever the local mosquito species was. I'll stop killing them now.



Yeah they don't bite and don't make noise either. And they stay away from humans so they don't buzz around your head at night.

I kill mosquitoes but not the crane flies. Or silverfish which I have in my place a lot. They're harmless.


Silverfish can eat cotton, linen, and silk, so they can do damage.


Biggest issue I have with them is eating the binding glue in paperback books; they go nuts for that stuff.


I didn't know. Pretty much all my clothes and bedding are made of cotton but I never noticed. They're not like moths, if they eat it it is very little.

Maybe they eat dust as well though and my house is pretty dusty so there's that :)


i don't know what the ones near you are like but 100% of the crane flies i've ever crossed paths with fly straight into my face like a moth to a flame. they're harmless but they're extremely annoying.


If you have books and cherish them, you need to kill the silverfish.




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