Lemmy
Is it some kind of midge fly? How can you tell? If I were to make an uneducated guess, I'd say it's not a mosquito because there's not a straight proboscis.
26 Jun 2026 17:04
Is this a mosquito or something else?
I've had to deal with huge swarms of these things every summer for the few years I've lived a mile away from a lake. I assumed they were mosquitoes until recently.
Is it some kind of midge fly? How can you tell? If I were to make an uneducated guess, I'd say it's not a mosquito because there's not a straight proboscis.
Is it some kind of midge fly? How can you tell? If I were to make an uneducated guess, I'd say it's not a mosquito because there's not a straight proboscis.
I'm not sure what it is exactly. It doesn't look like a mosquito. I'd suggest uploading it on inaturalist.org to get it identified. 
26 Jun 2026 17:09
BTW, you don't need a lake to breed them. Any standing water will do. Rainwater barrels, cow troughs, ditches...
26 Jun 2026 18:04
Crane flies don't have those feather like antennae. As another poster commented, this looks like a midge
26 Jun 2026 22:33
No, the feathery antennae is a way to tell males and females apart, not species. Male mosquitoes have feathery antennae, and so do males of many other fly and even other insect species.
26 Jun 2026 23:04
Crane flies are significantly larger than mosquitoes and don't swarm. Swarms near a lake are very typical of midges who look superficially like mosquitoes.
26 Jun 2026 23:09
Here in Toronto area it is easy to tell the genders. Male mosquitoes are about 10 times the size of the females. Big honking things that look terrifying but do not harm. Are the squitos different gender sizes in different other areas? 
26 Jun 2026 23:22
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