Of Daddy-longlegs, do they serve any useful purpose, or are they around just to be annoying little critters flying into your hair and worst of all my 'ribena'

We have got loads of the critters at the mo :( They are everywhere and this yesr seem to have extra long legs :D

Lucy
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lol :D  Whata crime to ruin a good ribena :D

There are loads around at the moment   They are everywhere!!

We are being infested!

Although on the other hand this year I have hardly seen any wasps and they are the pits of all useless creatures, rather have daddys than them!!

We went for a pub meal yesterday lunch time, and hubby got a Daddy long legs leg mixed in with his chips!
Yuck!

No wasps here but more than our fair share of daddy long legs!  I've never known so many.  AND ... huge spiders too.

I loathe DLL's. They are stoopid, wingy, directionless, unambitious "flying" spideys. They are drawn to the light and then dither around it making that horrible sound of singeing wings and legs. I cannot sleep if there is one in the room, and J has to get up and catch it by its dangly leg and chuck it out the window - before the aforementioned leg drops off and off it goes again :rolleyes:

Horrid things! It's the time of year that they hatch, so every footstep in the fields sets up clouds of the things, and they get in my hair and my face and my mouth when I call the dogs .. yuk! I hate them! But they should all have hatched in another week or so.

Quote  But they should all have hatched in another week or so. 

Praise the Lord for that :D Fed up of finding legs on the floor, whoever designed them needs shooting ;)

According to Ricky Gervais on the dvd 'Animals' the daddy long les has the most poisinous venum known to man but it is unable to admisister it as he has no teeth :D

I am petrified of them!

Noooo, that's the 'daddy longleg' spider - actually called the harvestman (little, tiny body with long, thin legs) :)

And it's a myth, too!  Black widows are more poisonous, though not the worst; can't remember what is though.  Wandering spiders I *think*, from Brazil.  Something like that, it was only on telly a little while ago.  Shows how well my head's working at the mo, doesn't it? :p

Australian funnel-web spiders, isn't it?

>whoever designed them needs shooting

I think it was a party game, along the lines of 'Consequences', only drawing ... :rolleyes:

They keep my cat amused for minutes!  She darts about the rooms trying to catch them, when she does it's a de-wind, de-leg and then she eats them!   Maybe if I fed her it might help?  ;)

My cat does the exact same thing. It would be great if she would finish the legs off as well, but nope, she leaves them lying around all over the place :rolleyes: :)

You know your cats getting old when it can no longer be bothered to chase them :( We dont appear to have more than usual round here.

Our cat (as old and grumpy as he is bless him !) has never been interested in crane flies - rabbits, birds, mice, shrews and those big huge fat hairy black spiders he loves (even so far as to bring them in for us) but I think he actually classes fly chasing as a bit below him, he looks disdainfully at the dogs when they chase them, it's like he's saying 'oh how common!' - he is sooooooo stuck up :)

Apparantly we are going to have more this year than usual - the powers that be - scientists or whatever - have declared this year we will be swarmed with them :(

Great - so I get to spend every night chasing the stupid things out of my house and trying to stop the dogs from running around like loons whilst trying to catch them !  Really I don't know who is stupider, the crane flies or the dogs :)

they called a footie match off due to invasion of the daddy long legs on the pitch.
carol

There's loads around here :( I have a phobia of them (and spiders) :( :(
When I walk Holly swarms of them fly up with every step I take. I'm not too bothered with them when they're outside luckily, it's when they're inside and I can't get away from them. I just cower in a corner and shout for someone to come and kill it :D
I was on the toilet yesterday and I heard something behind the shower curtain... a daddy-long-legs emerged and started buzzing around the light. I've never done my trousers up that quick before :D :D

I have to keep my window closed all the time now because I don't want them to come in. Moths too, I'm scared of them too :(

Yes same here ive never seen so many DLL, seen very few wasps and bees, and ive never seen a lady bird where are they this year. i love lady birds.

My teenage son catches DDLs throws them into the toilet bowl and puts down the lid very quickly (only time he does put down the lid).  Then poor unsuspecting teenage daughters go to loo and house sounds like Hammer House of Horrors with its blood curdling screams!

I remember as a kid going to the local catholic school with my brothers(none of us went there but it was the time where you could get into schools without 7' fences!!!!) and pulling the legs off daddy longlegs. there would be loads clinging to the side of the school, more than i have ever seen since. I know sick, and would throttle my kids if i knew they were doing that :(
Lea (who is suitably ashamed at doing it!!!!!!!!!!)

Lennon loves to catch and eat them.  When I get up in the morning, I can usually see the remnants of several DDL corpses....nice! :D

Years ago we had a Springer who loved them and would eat any it saw, the only problem was you'd be sitting in a chair and the dog would look up, come flying towards you to use you as a spring board to get at the DLL that was on the wall above you - could be quite painful :D

Just thought..... perhaps they have eaten all he wasps      

                          or

the wasps should be eating them but since there isnt many of them then the daddy long legs win....

                         john

A bit of trivia regarding Crane Flies  :)