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Interesting! I always just thought they were the males of whatever the local mosquito species was. I'll stop killing them now.

• wkat4242 3y ago
  Yeah they don't bite and don't make noise either. And they stay away from humans so they don't buzz around your head at night. I kill mosquitoes but not the crane flies. Or silverfish which I have in my place a lot. They're harmless.
  • yungporko 3y ago
    i don't know what the ones near you are like but 100% of the crane flies i've ever crossed paths with fly straight into my face like a moth to a flame. they're harmless but they're extremely annoying.
  • Chris2048 3y ago
    Silverfish can eat cotton, linen, and silk, so they can do damage.
    • wkat4242 3y ago
      I didn't know. Pretty much all my clothes and bedding are made of cotton but I never noticed. They're not like moths, if they eat it it is very little. Maybe they eat dust as well though and my house is pretty dusty so there's that :)
    • aidenn0 3y ago
      Biggest issue I have with them is eating the binding glue in paperback books; they go nuts for that stuff.
  • dreamcompiler 3y ago
    If you have books and cherish them, you need to kill the silverfish.