A Crane Fly by any other name…

"The crane fly (tipula paludosa)"

…is still a pest.
"They go by many different names, such as the shovel fly, mosquito hawks. More commonly in the UK, they go by the name daddy longlegs,~ ~ ~ "
     "We" knew them as either Danny/Daddy Longlegs or "Jinnyspinner".  It's ruddy HARD to think a damn great hulking bruit of a Leather Jacket morphs into this delicate menace?
     For the uninformed - How to sex a Daddy Longlegs?  If you're tempted, by its rear end, to think male, that's the female (as is this one) and you're looking at its Ovipositor.