mosquito hawk

She came over to our place to get us to kill that mosquito hawk for her?

The insects' favorite food is mosquitoes, a taste that has led to them being called mosquito hawks.

We should protect and cherish this exquisite insect, known in the South as the mosquito hawk.

"This is how it flies around catching mosquitoes," she said, noting that in the South the creatures are known as "mosquito hawks."

Mosquito hawk can mean:

Hence the dragonfly's popular nickname, "mosquito hawk," nature's answer to D.D.T.

Some of the other names for crane flies are, mosquito hawks, mosquito eaters (or skeeter eaters), and jimmy spinners.

Also known as the "mosquito hawk," this insect can be found throughout Washington and is a beneficial contributor to the ecosystem because it consumes a large number of insect pests.

Numerous other common names have been applied to the crane fly, many of them more or less regional, including mosquito hawk, mosquito eater (or skeeter eater), gallinipper, may fly (or mayfly) gollywhomper and whapper.

So we've killed off the mosquito hawks with the spray and we've killed the other bugs the bats ate, and now there's nothing left but billions of mosquitoes and gnats, and we have to keep changing the spray as they get immune."