>>> Let me guess? This creature is called. "Malaria mosquitoes" is it right? Or rather, a long-legged mosquito. And why are all so afraid of these harmless, nectar-feeding insects, right? Do you have insectophobia?

There is an episode in Philip Dick's "Pomutnenia": a girl asks her neighbors to kill the strikers who flew to her room. After they explain that she should not be killed, as it is a harmless insect, she replies: If I were sure it was harmless, I would kill him myself.