What is the difference between mosquito hawk and dragonfly?

What is slang name of Dragonfly?

Mosquito hawk

What is a mosquito hawk?

An insect that eats mosquitoes also known as a crane fly, it looks like a very large mosquito. Some also call the dragonfly the mosquito hawk because its main diet is mosquitoes.

What is a galnapper?

a "mosquito hawk"

Is there a difference between a great black hawk and a common black hawk?

i do not no but this website should

Is the scientific name for a mosquito hawk the regular name?

culicidae

What eats a mosquito hawk?

they eat both female and male mosquito i do believe..... which is VERY helpful for us and animals.

What is the big mosquito-looking bug that is not a crane fly?

The big mosquito-looking bug that is not a crane fly is likely a mosquito hawk, also known as a crane fly.

What is the size and appearance of a big mosquito hawk?

A big mosquito hawk, also known as a crane fly, can have a wingspan of up to 3 inches and a body length of about 1 inch. They have long, slender bodies and long legs, resembling a large mosquito but without a stinger.

What is the big mosquito-looking bug?

The big mosquito-looking bug is likely a crane fly, also known as a mosquito hawk or daddy longlegs. It resembles a large mosquito but is harmless and does not bite humans.

How can you know the difference between a male and a female hawk?

the male is the fatter one

What is the biggest mosquito-looking bug you have ever encountered?

The biggest mosquito-looking bug I have ever encountered is the crane fly, also known as a mosquito hawk. It resembles a large mosquito but is harmless and does not bite humans.

Is the mosquito hawk the same as snake doctor?

According to my grandma Sadie (born & raised in Florida) they are the same thing. Well, they can be. "Mosquito hawk" is what we call a "common name", or an "informal name"; it is what people call any particular animal or plant in a particular place or time. It need not be correct, for example a mosquito is not a hawk and not a mosquito and it means different things in different places, and in a lot of places it means nothing at all because lots of people don't use the name. Common names are useful because they enable people in a particular place to talk about animals and plants and more or less understand each other most of the time, but they also are confusing because most animals and plants have no common names at all, most those that do have common names have more than one even in the same language, some in different places. Most common names also apply to more than one animal or plant. And a lot of common names have wrong meanings. "Formal" or "scientific" names may be a bit harder to use in many ways, but they do better than common names in some of those ways. For example, in some places a mosquito hawk is a Crane fly (also called a "daddy long legs". See what I mean about common names?). A crane fly is not a mosquito (though it , not a hawk, and doesn't hawk mosquitoes. It is a member of the fly Family Tipulidae, and that is a name that an insect scientist (entomologist) will recognise in any language in any place in the world. In some places a mosquito hawk is indeed a dragonfly as grandma Sadie rightly said. It also is neither a mosquito nor a hawk, but it does catch mosquitoes in the air; it "hawks" them all right. In some places a mosquito hawk is a damselfly. Damselflies are very closely related to dragonflies, and like dragonflies, damselflies are neither hawks nor mosquitoes, but do hawk mosquitoes. Most people who call dragonflies mosquito hawks also call damselflies mosquito hawks. Both are in the order Odonata, and again, an entomologist in any country should know the name Odonata, and what it means. Crane flies are in the order Diptera and therefore are practically unrelated to dragonflies and damselflies.