Name: Tipula oleracea and Tipula paludosa. Alias: Common crane fly, European crane fly, mosquito hawk, or skeeter eater. Although crane flies have the title of “mosquito hawk” none of them merit the ...

It seems as if a lot of people have been seeing more crane flies than usual this year. Crane flies, which are also referred to as mosquito hawks and mosquito eaters, are a fly species native to ...

Those “giant mosquitoes” that have been startling you at your porch light or menacing you inside your home as they glide along the walls or ceilings looking for a way out are not really mosquitoes.

Six new species of eriopterine crane flies are described, all from Assam and Sikkim. These are Trentepohlia (Mongoma) fuscogenualis, Teucholabis (Teucholabis) diperone; T. (T.) eremnopoda; Baeoura aka ...

Alexander, Charles P. 1928. "New species of crane-flies from South America. Part 2. (Family Tipulidae, order Diptera)." Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 21, (4) 623–641.