Is this a mosquito or something else?

So I'd consider myself a very amateur entomologist so am very open to being wrong here, but that's not a thing to my knowledge; if anything, the males tend to be smaller. You might be seeing two different species, or are misidentifying another insect for a male mosquito.

Mosquitoes have a slender, segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and a specialized, highly elongated, proboscis, adapted for piercing and sucking.

Don't see that on the picture!

I could be wrong. I have seen them for 60 yrs and anyone who sees them also calls them male mosquitoes. Now I am going to check it out and see. It’s summer now and there will be a few of them flying around that I can snap a pic of and see.

I searched and got this for male mosquito. This looks exactly like what I am talking about. They are way bigger and have no long proboscis for drinking.

If you got mosquito problems then I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but a ditch ain't one.

Scale would be helpful, but likely not a mosquito. Unless you have some decent macro setting or lens for your camera.

That's a crane fly. They have lots of nicknames and folk identities so it's super common to call them something else. I've heard them called "mosquito hawks" (they don't hunt mosquitoes) but male mosquitoes is a new one to me. You could add it to the Wikipedia page lol

Itch me!

Can confirm this is a crane fly, aka Tipuloidea sp.

Good call! Maybe it's a midge

Dafuq was Bob slinging?

All those years. I stand corrected.
Love to learn new shtuff.

My only mosquito problem is the noise they are making when they hit the electrical fly squatter.

I activate it when getting ready for bed, and when I turn off the lights, it only takes a few seconds before the fireworks starts. No hits so far this year.