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# my cat eats them as often as he can catch them
I prefer to just pull the wings off
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 0:27, archived)
# When I were a lad.
I used to pull the legs off things and chuckle at imagining a crane fly crash landing later. :/
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 0:30, archived)
# I think just about every boy does that to craneflies
it's part of the job description
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 0:32, archived)
# If I catch a cranefly
I stuff it into the web made by the tube spider that lives in the wall of my shed.
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 0:34, archived)
# Meals on wheels
er, wings. Fingers? erm...
I approve of insect charity.
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 0:36, archived)
# It is what they are for, rubbish insects.
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 1:27, archived)
# I'm told that they eat mosquitoes (these are also called may flies, right?)
Anything that eats mosquitoes is good to have around. They're kind of cute, too.
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 2:25, archived)
# No May flies are different., craneflies are often called 'Daddy long legs'
Look up Dragon fly larvae, they kill mosquito larvae and just about anything they can get hold of.
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 3:17, archived)
# Craneflies don't eat anything, they just breed
or get fed to tube spiders. The larvae do the eating.
(, Wed 11 May 2011, 9:10, archived)