And that includes the insects….
Here’s one of the ‘friendly’ gnats that are hanging around New Braunfels, TX this time of year.
Fortunately, they don’t bite, so while they look like an over-sized mosquito, they don’t have the power of mosquitoes to carry nasty diseases… or so I’ve been told!
Rhonda Bracey: At Random 
That’s not a gnat! That’s a daddy long legs (at least that’s what it looks like). They are harmless and actually, you want them around as they eat the smaller insects (such as gnats)!
It’s a gnat. It had wings. It flew. Last I knew, spiders didn’t fly! 😉
Certain daddy long legs have wings and can fly!
The locals call it a ‘Galley nipper’, but it’s really a crane fly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly
Not a Daddy Long legs!
We call them mosquito hawks here in Houston (same thing as crane fly). They’re big, but harmless.
Here is what we call a daddy long legs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
I think they are much nastier than the mosquito hawks. 🙂