Such bravery… he proceeded to play with the corpse until nothing was left of it :)

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (11 children)

That's not a mosquito, it's a harmless mosquito hawk, aka crane fly. Not a risk to humans, lives off grass roots.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Mosquito hawks are dragonflies, which actually eat mosquitoes. That there is a gollywhopper.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    The Crane Fly also gets called a Mosquito Hawk:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly

    In colloquial speech, crane flies are known as mosquito hawks or "skeeter-eaters", though they do not actually prey on adult mosquitos or other insects.[7][8] They are also sometimes called "daddy longlegs", a name which is also used for arachnids of the family Pholcidae and the order Opiliones. The larvae of crane flies are known commonly as leatherjackets.[7]

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sure, if you're a stupid idiot.

    (Adult crane flies don't eat. They don't even have mouths.)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Alright, Lemmy is just Reddit now. I'm out.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Eh

    https://mosquitojoe.com/blog/difference-between-crane-fly-and-mosquito-hawk/

    "Unlike the name suggests, a mosquito hawk is not a single insect. Instead, it refers to a group of insects, including the crane fly, dragonflies, and damselflies. The term originally came from the idea that these larger insects feast on other types of mosquitoes. In reality, only dragonflies and damselflies are effective predators of mosquitoes."

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    My sister had a cat who was declawed (not by her), medicated, old, sort of inbred, and had lived inside all his life. A more harmless cat you could barely imagine. He regularly found it a challenge to drink his water without fucking it up, and spent a lot of time just staring at the wall.

    He once found a moth that was already damaged when he got to it, and successfully killed it. He carried the moth around in his mouth, clearly basking in the intoxicating flood of pride of the hunter he was feeling, for almost an hour before eating the whole thing.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    My cat hunts cockroaches! I usually find a dead one in the morning lol. Also no I'm not dirty I just live in an old house in Japan.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    My brother's cat hunts flies and mosquitos for him. She's a helpful little soldier.

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