Daddy Long Legs

[warsaw]

This is a bumper year for the beauties I can currently count EIGHT in my lounge.

I love em. They are only around for a short time at the end of September/ early October. The only have SIX fuckin long legs and I LOVE the way they dance around on the walls and ceilings achieving precisely f*** ALL. My dog loves em too.

 

[Stoo82]

They're only alive for 24 hours are they not?

 

[severnside gull]

Surprisingly (my wife would say, thankfully) there is a dearth of our six legged friends in the midlands and in the south west but there is time yet.....

Daddy Long Legs (Crane Flies) not to be confused with spiders of the same name, certainly live more than 24 hours* as adults - in larval form as leatherjackets they are a garden pest




*May flies - also known as day flies - and some dragon flies and damsel flies only live for 24 hours in adult form

 

[Billy the Fish]

This is a bumper year for the beauties I can currently count EIGHT in my lounge.

I love em. They are only around for a short time at the end of September/ early October. The only have SIX fuckin long legs and I LOVE the way they dance around on the walls and ceilings achieving precisely f*** ALL. My dog loves em too.

Strange man

 

[sam86]

This is a brilliantly enthusiastic thread!

 

[Notters]

I haven't seen ANY in Brighton OR Uckfield.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

They are the campest insect. We had an Australian exchange student at school and he was petrified of the 'giant mozzy'.

 

[clarkey]

They seem much, much bigger this year. They also seem incredibly boring creatures.

 

[nwgull]

I thought they just had sex then died?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

they prove that there is no god

 

[Stoo82]

they prove that there is no god

Or God has a sence of humer.

 

[Everest]

I they just had sex then died?

You like a bit of beastiality then?

 

[dingobruce]

I've heard that they have venom in them strong enough to kill a human, but no way to actually dispense their venom into anything, no sting or anything. Should they evolve we are all DOOMED!

 

[dingobruce]

Seems to just be a myth!

There is an urban legend stating that daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicerae (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin; the same legend is also repeated of the harvestman and crane fly, also called "daddy long-legs" in some locales. Indeed, pholcid spiders do have a short fang structure (called uncate). However, brown recluse spiders also have uncate fang structure, but are able to deliver medically significant bites. Either pholcid venom is not toxic to humans or there is a musculature difference between the two arachnids, with recluses, being hunting spiders, possessing stronger muscles for fang penetration.[

 

[Durlston]

I haven't seen ANY in Brighton OR Uckfield.

Or Haywards Heath.

 

[sam86]

Or God has a sence of humer.

A what of what?

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Seems to just be a myth!

That's a bit like when you find out that Santa Claus is just your fat old paedophile Uncle who wants to bounce you around on his knee and not some mythical, magical being who can control time and know about the goodness and badness of every child in the world.

Bastard.

I am still going to tell my kids that they are poisonous because it makes them jump out of their skins when they come near!

 

[dannyboy]

we had one in ardingly , loads last year . i think they are quite sweet but they do have the annoying hablit of divebombing your face when your watching tv . ill let them get away with it a couple of times then try to catch them and lob them out of the window.

if i cant catch them then its splat time, and i onoy usually take pleasure in splatting flies and wasps.

although i did stamp on a spider yesterday , well it was huge . i heard it walk acros the floor.. i thought it had wellies on!!

 

[Laughing Gravy]

Seems to just be a myth!

A mate of mine that is well into spiders told me that those skinny spiders that you find in the corner of your ceilings, they are the ones that could kill you if they had the means to inject thier venom.

But he could be wrong I Think I've Found a Deadly Spider!

 

[Hillian1]

My cat eats them.

my cat is however a mental case.