Huge alien mosquitoes in my plant room

[power270lb]

Ok Ive dealt with fungus gnats in the past and now most of my trees are in inorganic soil. I've used mosquito bits with success in the past, I just moved my trees inside under grow lights and I've killed a dozen or so ALIEN gigantic mosquitoes. There's a few babies also but I don't get where they could be coming from. There's no way they hatched and grew this big in the last 6 weeks abd I've only noticed them in the last week or so. I have carnivore plants and saw one stuck last week but now it's crazy. There's a plant hook in the ceiling with an open hole could it be from there? It's gotten to be low 30s, there's no holes in the windows at all. These things are huge I don't get it.

 

[hinmo24t]

Mayfly

 

[penumbra]

They are disquieting but they don't bite.

 

[Michael P]

Not mosquitos, they are crane flies and do not bite.

 

[berzerkules]

I've always called them mosquito hawks

 

[sorce]

I came across this the other day.

Sorce

 

[TN_Jim]

They’re your friend (or mine at least) harmless to your trees they eat decaying organic matter and have some association with pollination or nectar gathering; unfortunately, the adults usually don’t eat anything (like a mayfly) and definitely don’t eat mosquitoes.

I personally would never spray or apply treatment for them, they are a sign of diversity in large, small, and micro ecosystem(s)/ecology and my wife likes that they are called mosquito hawks regardless. For the birds. Seems like there’s always one on the storm door or about, their behavior is more like a moth or butterfly.

Happy thanksgiving!

 

[power270lb]

I came across this the other day.

Sorce

Appreciate you sir. My windows are brand new I don't get how they'd be coming in. There's a plant hook that's loose in the ceiling, possibly there? There's no way they came from my soil it's all within the last week.

 

[power270lb]

They’re your friend (or mine at least) harmless to your trees they eat decaying organic matter and have some association with pollination or nectar gathering; unfortunately, the adults usually don’t eat anything (like a mayfly) and definitely don’t eat mosquitoes.

I personally would never spray or apply treatment for them, they are a sign of diversity in large, small, and micro ecosystem(s)/ecology and my wife likes that they are called mosquito hawks regardless. For the birds. Seems like there’s always one on the storm door or about, their behavior is more like a moth or butterfly.

Happy thanksgiving!

It's inside tho and I'm worried about them escaping and my gf hates all things bugs. I genuinely don't get how they got in because windows are brand new. There's a loose plant hook in the ceiling and my plant lights are bright. It's low 30s now are they still outside?

 

[sorce]

Appreciate you sir. My windows are brand new I don't get how they'd be coming in. There's a plant hook that's loose in the ceiling, possibly there? There's no way they came from my soil it's all within the last week.

We managed to steam a few stink bugs out some kitchen cracks yesterday.

Made me think about insulation, crack fillin.

Sorce

 

[TinyArt]

think about insulation, crack fillin

Makes sense -- friends of mine in upstate NY built and shingled an addition themselves, and every year the freezing outdoors & warm interior draw ladybugs out of hibernation and into the house, to appear like magic through some undiscovered gap

 

[berzerkules]

Makes sense -- friends of mine in upstate NY built and shingled an addition themselves, and every year the freezing outdoors & warm interior draw ladybugs out of hibernation and into the house, to appear like magic through some undiscovered gap

Honestly, I don't think I'd mind having lady bugs in my house.

 

[TN_Jim]

Honestly, I don't think I'd mind having lady bugs in my house.

I high five a ladybug in the house, you go girl with your bad self.

 

[TinyArt]

Honestly, I don't think I'd mind having lady bugs in my house.

Well, they're charming -- and they astonish guests -- but finding the little corpses is sad.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Watching those things fly always makes me question whether all moving critters have a brain.

 

[berzerkules]

Well, they're charming -- and they astonish guests -- but finding the little corpses is sad.

You're probably right. I doubt they would get along with the local arachnid population anyway.

 

[PA_Penjing]

the creepy thing about these guys is how they get into your house. They probably didn't come in from the outside. tubes emerge from the soil at a 70 degree angle and then the insect moves up the tube like and elevator shaft. As it emerges from the top it unfolds itself into that hellish form. I've seen it first hand and it made me very uneasy. Good news is (like everyone said) they're the good guys. And studying their disgusting way of life can help make us aware of our own faults. Are they really that gross? or are we just really different?

 

[AJL]

We call them Craneflies or Daddy Long legs. Their larvae are called Leatherjackets and feed underground on grass roots before emerging as adult flies in late summer and autumn
They are a great bait for dapping for big trout on Irish Loughs

 

[Potawatomi13]

Yep, Gallinippers for sure. Sometimes called Crane flies. Personally have tried to eradicate from pots as for fear of eating small hairy roots. Not just dead stuff.

 

[ShadyStump]

Always just heard then called swamp flies. They're kinda fascinating to watch sometimes, but yeah, bugs in the house is rarely a comforting thing.