What kind of bug is this?
 

Today my mom was about to take a shower and she found this bug around the shower. She sprayed it with ant poison and that seemed to do the trick.

We couldn't figure out what it was and so I took a few pictures of it. My first guess was that it was a young dragon fly, but I thought the legs were a bit too long.

I live on the southwestern border of Texas where things are pretty dry.

Any ideas as to what it is?

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It looks the same as the ones here.

I don't know what they're called but they are really common, harmless and have a really short lifespan (c. 24 hours).

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That looks like a crane fly, if it was a good bit smaller i would have said a large mosquito (male or female, whichever ones bigger). I'm pretty sure its a crane fly though.

Those things are flying around all the time here in PA.

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Crane fly.

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Definitely a daddy long legs, as we call crane flies here. I've had to shift enough of them out of the way of my terrified mother in the past to recognise the damned things. I thought they were incredibly common all across the world, but apparently not in Texas.

No, I have no idea why we call them that. We just do.

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Holy crap, I thought you were joking, but you really do call them Daddy Long Legs.

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Would I ever lie to you?!

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Yes!

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I'm shocked and hurt that you could think such a thing.

Or am I...?

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We get things that look similar here. They keep really low to the grass, though. And they have an orange outside.

Pholcidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's the true Daddy long-legs. At least, they're what we call them here in Australia.

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It really is. And they are freaky.

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I hate them. They have the flight skills of a blind pilot. They keep crashing into everything.

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A blind, drunk pilot, with the only exception that they can always find your face and fly into it repeatedly.

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They're called Schnepfen in German, I don't know what they are in English and I don't care to look at up.
Anyway, they're not bad to keep around since they preferably eat mosquitoes, even though they do look kind of freakish, and, as was mentioned, like to fly in people's faces.

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Actually in Germany they are also called Opa Langbein (at least where I live), which is pretty close to daddy long-legs, as it translates to granddaddy long-legs.

Crane fly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Yes, they are big, clumsy spiders that used to walk on the rocks around our old house.

I think my mom used to call those crane flies Mosquito Eaters or something.

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yeah, that definately looks like a crane fly...sadly, I've never even heard of a crane fly until now :)

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Lol, funny.

InDutch we call them "langpootmug" or "longlegmusquito" (Tipulidae family but also the Cylindrotominae and Limoniinae families. Most common specie overhere is the Tipula oleracea), couldn't think of a more obvious name. It's a musquito with long legs. =p

According to the dictionary daddy long legs translates to either langpootmug for the musquito and "hooiwagen" (haywagon) for the spider which shares the same name in English (how convinient).

Edit: wikipedia also mentions the "reuzenlangpootmug" or "giantlonglegmusquito" (Tipula maxima) as a musquito with evne longer legs.

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Stankelben! Directly translated in English to something like "Skinnylegs"

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I hate them especially in the american autumn. Billions of them seems to be all over the place _ porablably because thats when they mate

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If you need them removed, I'll be happy to release them back into the wild. Besides, what did they ever do to you? When WWIII breaks out and you're living in caves, I'll bet that you'd prefer that the resident bears don't stuff you in their porridge and eat you alive.

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Where I grew up we always called Daddy long Legs a certain type of spider that is mostly long legs with a fairly small body, also called the Harvest Spider. According to Wiki the nickname is commonly applied to either it or the Crane Fly. I've never heard a Crane Fly called a Daddy Long Legs until now though. Perhaps the name is used differently between the northern and southern regions due to which species are most prevalent in them.

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Has anyone ever seen the eyebrow bugs? We had a few of them in my dorm floor last semester, crawled in through an open window I think... NASTY. I don't know what they're really called, but I REALLY don't like them.

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You mean this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_centipede

Personally, I think they look kinda cool, and with an appetite like this...

"House centipedes feed on spiders, bedbugs, termites, cockroaches, silverfish, ants and other household arthropods."

...they're practically your best friend. I think they look more like eyelashes than eyebrows though.

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You want a freaky bug, a Hellgrammites

http://www.stripersonline.com/ubb547...ds/img1211.jpg

http://www.troutnut.com/im_regspec/p...1486_small.jpg

Makes good fishing bait though, but a pain (literally) to catch. When they have their wings they are really a pain in the ass...

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My fave bug has always been the Preying Mantis, it simply rules all other bugs. I used to see them a lot where I grew up but since moving I haven't encountered many. I've always thought they look rather extra terrestrial.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2...b768406oc0.jpg

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It would be terrifying if you were smaller.

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Or it were bigger!!!

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The preying mantis is one of the coolest bugs ever!

I see them around here every now and then, but only early in the morning, and no more than a few a year.

Anybody ever seen what we call "stick bugs" here? They are almost impossible to see unless they move because they are so skinny and look exactly like a stick. Those are cool too for some reason.

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Yeah, I've seen one of those, though they're not as common as the Preying Mantis.

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/706...chronusad1.jpg

I saw a bug mt biking once in Eastern Washington that was a bright green beetle with wild looking bright red or orange stripes on it (don't recall which). I'd never seen anything like it and I've yet to find a picture of one.

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ha learn something new everyday

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That's a stick insect (Carausius morosus) not? We call them 'wandelende tak" or "walking branch" / "walking stick".

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Right, can anyone identify this bug?


Landed on a friends leg. Found in East Africa. I've been curious about it for ages.

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It's definitely some type of grasshopper, but being as it's in Africa it could make for an exhaustive search to find which one. Africa probably has more grasshopper species than anywhere in the world.

Check out this site, there's some bright green grasshoppers on it that are nymphs (babies) of the Grey Bird grasshopper which look very similar, but they're in the US and don't have the nice reptilian looking ridge on the back (14th pic). Note the stick looking Spanish grasshopper in the 25th pic near the bottom of the page.

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/grasshoppers_2.html

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It's just a male misquito, thats all. We call them "squitos" for short where I live.