Daddy Long Legs
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They are amazing and I can understand someone worrying that they might be a giant mozzy, but where the hell do they fit into the scheme of things? Spider food ?
What do they eat as larva as they eat sod all as a fly as far as I've noticed.
They've got little counter balance bobbles behind their wings to help them fly..I think.
What do they eat as larva as they eat sod all as a fly as far as I've noticed.
They've got little counter balance bobbles behind their wings to help them fly..I think.
Box of Frogs
Zamoras Left Boot
We are in Eastbourne and seem to have had loads in the last week or so.
Why is it that I can pick them up and chuck them outside no problem, but I have to get a glass and a bit of card to get rid of a spider?!?!
Why is it that I can pick them up and chuck them outside no problem, but I have to get a glass and a bit of card to get rid of a spider?!?!
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
They're not really daddy long legs, they're crane flies.
Daddy long legs is a lazy term that covers crane flies, spiders and arachnids.
Harvestmen, which arent spiders as they have lungs(!) don't have wings. Their bodies are small and round.
Cellar spiders have similar abdomens and legs to crane flies but again do not have wings. I've 3 or 4 cellar spiders in my bathroom this year and they keep flooding the bathroom with spider litters. In fact if they all survived I'd probably have about 100 of them in there. I've about 10 different species of spider in there at the moment. Never a dull moment.
Crane flies, as stated earlier can't kill humans. Not without an axe anyway.
By the way, don't kill spiders. Stupid.
Daddy long legs is a lazy term that covers crane flies, spiders and arachnids.
Harvestmen, which arent spiders as they have lungs(!) don't have wings. Their bodies are small and round.
Cellar spiders have similar abdomens and legs to crane flies but again do not have wings. I've 3 or 4 cellar spiders in my bathroom this year and they keep flooding the bathroom with spider litters. In fact if they all survived I'd probably have about 100 of them in there. I've about 10 different species of spider in there at the moment. Never a dull moment.
Crane flies, as stated earlier can't kill humans. Not without an axe anyway.
By the way, don't kill spiders. Stupid.
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
I always leave spiders in the house. They are friends. They do a grand job of eating rogue flies. Not bothered about picking them up, although I did get bitten by a false widow (I think) that gave me a bit of a shock.
Drumstick
NORTHSTANDER
Got loads in my lounge at the moment, don't bother me, Missus hates them tho its very funny and the dog just gets confused and dizzy following them, decides to charge for one which flys off leaving golden retriever charging towards the wall :hehe:
They are amazing and I can understand someone worrying that they might be a giant mozzy, but where the hell do they fit into the scheme of things? Spider food ?
What do they eat as larva as they eat sod all as a fly as far as I've noticed.
They've got little counter balance bobbles behind their wings to help them fly..I think.
The larva (leather jackets) munch on grass roots.
brighton_girl87
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- Jul 18, 2006
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Lush
Mods' Pet
I like the way they wait on your front door, swaying with excitement, waiting for you to come home. Then as soon as you open the door they go charging in.
I don't know what they're expecting to find inside.
I don't know what they're expecting to find inside.
- Jul 7, 2003
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They are a pain in the arse, if there's a more pointless creature I have yet to see it.
The most annoying function they have is to flap enthusiastically towards any source of light, specifically my bedroom window for the millionth of a second before I slam it shut, and then find themselves stuck behind a curtain or radiator, ensuring you have to listen to their hopeless and continual fffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppppppppppppp noise as they batter their wings against said curtains/radiator trying in vain to get out.
I have yet to discover a method of getting to sleep when the fffffffffffffffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppppppppppppppppp noise is going on. Bastards
The most annoying function they have is to flap enthusiastically towards any source of light, specifically my bedroom window for the millionth of a second before I slam it shut, and then find themselves stuck behind a curtain or radiator, ensuring you have to listen to their hopeless and continual fffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppppppppppppp noise as they batter their wings against said curtains/radiator trying in vain to get out.
I have yet to discover a method of getting to sleep when the fffffffffffffffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppppppppppppppppp noise is going on. Bastards
brakespear
Doctor Worm
We had a crane fly one year that over the brief period of its life (spent in our living room), managed to lose all the legs on one side of its body, which left every landing attempt charged with pathos.
Maybe they are expecting a lovely warm home. Every daddy long legs dream!