Pholcidae, or cellar spiders, are spiders! They’re the ones responsible for most of the cobwebs that may be in your house. Opiliones are arachnids, but not spiders. Crane flies are just annoying corpses with wings that fly into your house to die every summer.
Are crane flies the same as mosquito hawks?
Yes. And, despite the name, not a single specimen has ever eaten a mosquito.
The larvae of some crane fly species eat mosquito larvae, but crane flies themselves do not. Most don’t eat anything as adults. They lack the catching apparatus, agility, and, frankly, intelligence to catch live prey. Can you imagine one of those bumbly tangles of legs actually catching something? It’d be like a toddler successfully bringing down a gazelle.
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