Daddy Long Legs

Andr3w · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:01

ffs one just went past my face, there are 2 in my room now i think

Meatball · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:03

One just flew into my face, scared the life oughta me! In my old school we used to catch em all in bottles and trap them. Thousands of the things!

Conscript · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:15

I, for one, welcome our daddy long-legs overlords.

singist · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:20

Phnom_Penh said:
Daddy Long Legs are spiders. Crane flies are what the op means, people like to mix them up though.

The Crane fly has been called Daddy long legs for as long as I can remember (I'm old too) so nowt to do with spiders.

benjo plz. · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:24

singist said:
The Crane fly has been called Daddy long legs for as long as I can remember (I'm old too) so nowt to do with spiders.

Except for the spiders which are called Daddy Long Legs

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I just found two crane flys having sex on my front door. Lovely.

"andy" · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:28

hate them

topgun06 · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:46

Flippin annoying. There are about 5 trapped on my case filters rattling around! :mad:

Andr3w · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:47

for **** sake there are two moths and two daddy long legs flying around this room

CLAWS · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:50

Theyre annoying. They fly into your room, smack themselves against your wall repeatedly and then eventually just sit there until you splat them. Carne flies die in the face!!! :mad:

Andelusion · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:50

My mum killed a load of eggs in our lawn the other day.

I've just mid-air pummled one into oblivion here too :cool:

Puzzled · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:52

Argh they are everywhere at the moment, as I type this I have one buzzing around the monitor.

I just don't get how they are so useless at flying? They must have been around for thousands of years and they still fly like drunks. Just crashing in to things, then they stay still for a bit......... then back to bouncing off the walls.

Spiders must love them though, every web has about 10 of the things stuck to it.

Gilly · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:55

Andr3w said:
daddy long legs has the most lethal posion to humans, it just cant give you it because it has no teeth!!

3rd most poisonous IIRC and its that their teeth aren't long enough

Andr3w said:
for **** sake there are two moths and two daddy long legs flying around this room

Daddy Long Legs's don't fly. A flying one is a Jimmy Spinner.

Freakish_05 · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:58

Was driving to the shops this morning, got about 2 miles down the road and one of these buggers flies right across my face. Bearing in mind my car had been shut and locked all night.

I started waving my arms around like I was having some sorta fit. :eek:

Nearly crashed! Got the little **** at the next set of lights though

Dont Mess! lol

Bumhucker · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:59

I've been considering which is best recently. Spiders I don't like but they've never actually interfered with me. Crane flies (Daddy long legs), on the other hand, I'm not scared of but they annoy me intensely! The way they fly so aimlessly, the noise they make brushing lampshades, the way they dive-bomb you when you're trying to have a wee.

If you have lots in your house, look at your garden lawn after sunset. I did this the other night and it was crawling with daddy long legs! Hundreds of the blighters!

Andr3w said:
daddy long legs has the most lethal posion to humans, it just cant give you it because it has no teeth!!

hyster said:
I presume you know thats a myth.

That's what you get when your source is a Ricky Gervais stand-up.

Gilly · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:01

Bumhucker said:
That's what you get when your source is a Ricky Gervais stand-up.

I heard that 'fact' about 15 years ago. How long has he been doing stand-up?

Dr.EM · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:04

Spiders must love them though, every web has about 10 of the things stuck to it.

The best meat is on the leg

Yeah, haven't seen so many it's annoying me, but then my window has been shut. Were a couple on the outside of it earlier.

Andr3w · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:09

i just went mental and started swinging a book around the room, killed about 4 i think!

Pookie Bear · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:15

There are two types of daddy-long-legs (at this point, I hit copy and paste). The daddy-long-legs, which is also known as a crane fly, and the daddy-long-legs spider, which is that spider with great long legs and and a little round-ish body.

I've not seen any daddy-long-legs/crane flies about recently (up North), but then again I don't go looking for them

but I have seen a few daddy-long-legs spiders - considering their main prey is spiders and harvestmen, I would have thought most people would like having the spidery ones about

also bearing that in mind, I was pretty surprised to actually witness one of them (and it looked a baby one, cos it wasn't too big and was very ungainly) get bitten by (what looked like) a little wolf spider. I got some pics on my camera but they came out crap

Now you made me look around the study.....no, no daddy-long-legs around here

............. but I've lifted my feet off the floor in case there's any other creepy-crawlies about

yermum · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:18

We found the perfect cure for this. Every house in our road has had it lawn chewed to oblivion by the leather jackets except our. Neighbours have spent a fortune on insecticides and hours watering in nemetodes, but not us.

Our remedy..............let 6 chickens have the run of the garden in the spring and they eat all the little blighters. We have very few daddy long legs, no slugs and the best eggs you've ever tasted.

Result.

topgun06 · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:21

Andr3w said:
daddy long legs has the most lethal posion to humans, it just cant give you it because it has no teeth!!

So if you ate one, would you die, or get poisoned? Not that you would wanna eat one, but a thought... :confused: