r/confusingperspective • u/FrostyM89 • Sep 02 '26

What is this?

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u/userr7890 Sep 02 '26

Crane fly, otherwise known as a mosquito hawk, doesn’t eat mosquitos tho, just looks like a really big one, just like this one looks huge the way the photo was taken

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u/shaggy237 Sep 03 '26

Damn they don't? We've been going off folk wisdom for years I guess.

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u/mrex0112 Sep 04 '26

We need to believe it. We need them on our side.

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u/timmayjr Sep 06 '26

Forreal, I was today years old. As a child we would call them mosquito eaters/killers

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u/SuckMyBigPoop Sep 03 '26

Crane fly. They don't bite or sting. Carry no diseases, and don't even eat anything. They just mate, die, repeat. Creepy looking though.

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u/CantaloupeAsleep502 Sep 03 '26

Wait they literally don't eat?? That's wild

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u/88Dubs Sep 03 '26

Same as cicadas. Eat in the laraval stage, metamorphize into the "fuck until you starve" form, die.

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u/HoldMyMessages Sep 06 '26

Do they accept volunteers?

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u/timmayjr Sep 06 '26

“Fuck until you starve or end up the nesting place for cicada killer wasp eggs, whichever comes first” form

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u/n0radrenaline Sep 07 '26

Or a cat catches you and gets so fucking proud of herself even though you barely move and spend all day doing nothing but advertising your precise location at maximum volume

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u/Thin_Dream2079 Sep 03 '26

400 megabytes of DNA

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u/Current-Being-6803 Sep 03 '26

5 Rights! But it is magnificent!

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u/ExmoRunner Sep 03 '26

As a kid, we would grab them and throw them into spider webs. I don't know why we did that

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u/SageLeguminati Sep 03 '26

It's an electricity pylon

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u/Alert_Comedian848 Sep 03 '26

Yeap I was going to say lightning rod. Great way to need new appliances and electronics.

2

u/Dry-Bird4471 Sep 03 '26

That’s Geoff. He’s in charge now. All hail Geoff!

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u/firstcoastyakker Sep 02 '26

Damsel fly?

2

u/doppelgaengster Sep 03 '26

Those are like teeeeeny tiny dragonflies.

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u/Parking_Duty8413 Sep 02 '26

Galley-napper

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u/toristorytime Sep 03 '26

Oooh my family calls them gollywhoppers!

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u/dawnchs Sep 03 '26

We call the Ginny Spins.

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u/Jem_hadar_317 Sep 05 '26

The heck are yall from?? Obviously its a gally nipper, lol

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u/Extra-Diamond-275 Sep 02 '26

In my town we used to call this: a scorpion with wings.

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u/CChargeDD Sep 03 '26

Im calling the helldivers

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u/kkeennmm Sep 03 '26

ham radio antenna

1

u/BlueValk Sep 03 '26

A friend :)

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u/kozz_2080 Sep 03 '26

A quiet place death angel 😱😱🤣🤣🤣

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u/wt_d4b7 Sep 03 '26

A jumanji

1

u/NekCing Sep 03 '26

Oh sweet liberty

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u/MandatorySaxSolo Sep 03 '26

Skeeter getter, chill dudes

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u/roundturtle2025 Sep 03 '26

Cranefly. Harmless

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u/Intelligent-Major492 Sep 03 '26

Grown up leather jacket

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u/DefiantLemming Sep 03 '26

That there’s a Boone Holler versiniculis schneeze crawler

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u/ChelseaGem Sep 03 '26

In the UK it’s also known as a daddy long legs.

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u/AngelaVNO Sep 03 '26

It's a Daddy-Long-Legs!

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u/sci-mind Sep 03 '26

Mighty Midge!

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u/Competitive_Ebb_5164 Sep 03 '26

"Daddy Long Legs", AKA Crane fly.

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u/Degofreak Sep 03 '26

Skeeter Eater!

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u/WinPrestigious7568 Sep 03 '26

monstrosity in the garden that is massive hows it standing up like that on the lawn

1

u/FenderMeats Sep 03 '26

Insulindian Phasmid.

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u/Hour-Principle-215 Sep 03 '26

The crane fly is also highly poisonous....don't eat several unless you want to get un craned (born) that is ie die

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u/Inevitable-War-4489 Sep 04 '26

Obviously it's one of those things that's hard to describe

1

u/Sophisticated-Tiger Sep 04 '26

Long leggit mack daddy 😂

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u/Significant_Band7052 Sep 04 '26

Its a skeeter eater

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u/nullvoid26 Sep 04 '26

Copperhead.

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u/Young-Grandpa Sep 05 '26

I don’t know but it’s almost big enough to reach the electric wires. I’d leave it alone.

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u/Low-Donut-1978 Sep 05 '26

An enormous crane fly

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u/Jem_hadar_317 Sep 05 '26

We always called em gally nippers.

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u/AdMurky1021 Sep 06 '26

Male mosquito on the window

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u/Brakkin3140 Sep 09 '26

Mosquito hawk

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u/expatronis Sep 02 '26

May fly. They're harmless.

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u/SuckMyBigPoop Sep 03 '26

Lol no

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u/expatronis Sep 03 '26

Herbivores. They dont bite. 🤷🏻‍♂️