Is it dangerous to insect, like a large mosquito, as it is painted?

Who does not love summer: the sun, the sea, the beach ... Romantic people will prefer the riverbank, communication with nature, the special color of the sky, songs by the fire, the smell of smoke and baked potatoes ... The dacha's complain about weeds, drought, moles and inexorably scorching sun. Beauty! For residents of the metropolis is a wander through the concrete jungle in search of a cool corner or an expedition to discover new, unknown faces of the city.

However, and summer residents, and avid townspeople summer nights, real, Gogol, marred by our smaller arthropod brothers: mosquitoes. They pierce the barrier of mosquito net, get used to fumigators, they do not even help fumigation of the apartment with smelly spirals ... In the morning everything will be itching: both the stomach and back, and the little finger, and the sole of the foot, which is the most unpleasant.

Mosquitoes, to be exact, mosquitoes, now cause nothing but petty annoyance and dislike. Much more emotion will be caused by an unknown insect, similar to a large mosquito, crawling on a blanket, or, even worse, already by your hand. "Malaria", - sweeps in your head, and you are already dancing jigu-jigu with frantic screams, and in the morning you fall asleep, clutching a smoking stick in your hand. In fact, a large mosquito - does not mean - malarial. So, if you see an insect that looks like a big mosquito, do not rush to kill the baby. Maybe it's just ...

Mosquito-long-legged

Mosquito long-legged (also called caramor) is a whole (very numerous, by the way) family, whose representatives live everywhere. It looks like a long-legged and really frightening: a long body (from a couple of millimeters to six centimeters), a terrible shape of the chest, huge legs (as you might have guessed), an elongated stigma, and not just a stigma, it's the whole snout! By the way, the caramors are the record holders. These are the largest mosquitoes in the world. He moves awkwardly, does not dodge his hand / newspaper / fly swathes. Everyone who was frightened by a long-legged beast, I hasten to reassure: it does not bear any harm. In the early stages, it feeds on nectar, or does not feed at all on later ones, unlike the familiar mosquito, which needs blood to bring out a new generation of the same annoying monsters.

Komar-dergun

Another insect, similar to a large mosquito - a mosquito-derngun, or known to all fishermen and people engaged in aquarium fish, bloodworm. That's who annoys gardeners, tourists and bards who gather near the picturesque banks of ponds and rivers. At dusk, you can hear a thin squeak: this dreguntsy then soar up, then the stone falls down. A distinctive feature of this family is the forelimbs, very thin, long. Mosquitoes push them forward and jerk them, which is why they are called derguns. These are green, green or brownish-green large mosquitoes. The photo may not delight you, but it will diminish your dislike when you learn that these creatures are harmless: they do not know how to bite.

Do not rush to kill!

So, we have found out that an insect similar to a large mosquito, which you met in the bosom of nature, in a cottage on the seashore, in a stuffy multi-storey building, will hardly damage your health. Love and guard every living being, for man is the king of nature, and therefore a wise, judicious and magnanimous ruler.