just sitting here wondering....
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...what happened to daddy long legs? you just don't see them anymore. When I was in primary school every autumn we'd be plagued with the things. The naughty kids used to catch them and pull their legs off. I was just thinking though,I haven't seen one in ages.... Please explain
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They were hunted to extinction by naughty kids.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
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We have a reduced but reasonable presence in the North Surrey area........Raymondo
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i saw one the other week.The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
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Still see the odd one but not hundreds like when I was a kid... How sad...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0
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All the better for it I say. There's nothing more terrifying in life than one of these flying straight at your face!0
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Do you have a young boy living in your house? If so they are probably in with your raisins having just had their legs pulled off.0
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Isn't there an urban myth that they are amazingly venomous, but their teenw weeny fangs can't penetrate human skin?FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
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I caught a six foot daddy longlegs the other day.
I pulled one of its legs of and now it's only a five foot daddy longlegs.0 -
Yes, but it is about a spider (possibly in the US) that is also known as a daddy long legs. And it's still cobblers.SimonAH wrote:Isn't there an urban myth that they are amazingly venomous, but their teenw weeny fangs can't penetrate human skin?0 -
British daddy long legs don't have mouths so they can't bite or eat.... They literally hatch from maggots where they love most of their lives, love for a day or so as flies to mate and then die....SimonAH wrote:Isn't there an urban myth that they are amazingly venomous, but their teenw weeny fangs can't penetrate human skin?Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
It might just be that the mummy long legs make them stay at home and look after the kids?
I know if my kid's mummy had long legs I'd stay at home a LOT more
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I was attacked by one only last night, in a hurry to leave the hallway as I came in. But otherwise, I dont recall seeing many. I'm sure they're a dewy dawn/dusk creature though, and we've just had rain and more rain since Feb, probably not been an opportunity for them to fly about.0
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Its not Autumn yet, Just feels like it."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Veronese68 wrote:
Yes, but it is about a spider (possibly in the US) that is also known as a daddy long legs. And it's still cobblers.SimonAH wrote:Isn't there an urban myth that they are amazingly venomous, but their teenw weeny fangs can't penetrate human skin?
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Yes they're an autumn creature but I just don't recall seeing 1 for the past 10-15 years whereas there used to literally be hundreds of them all over the school playing fields and on the side of the school buildings when I was growing up... I think they've all been kidnapped by aliens or somethingDo not write below this line. Office use only.0
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Yes they're an autumn creature but I just don't recall seeing 1 for the past 10-15 years whereas there used to literally be hundreds of them all over the school playing fields and on the side of the school buildings when I was growing up... I think they've all been kidnapped by aliens or somethingDo not write below this line. Office use only.0
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I actually saw one about two weeks ago, i do believe as is customary that it only had 4/6 legs"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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If it has wings it's a Crane Fly.0
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And what about May Bugs? Where have they gone? I have memories as a kid of swarms of them and my brother pinging them with a tennis racket - they made an amazing buzzing noise when he did.0
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Paulie W wrote:And what about May Bugs? Where have they gone? I have memories as a kid of swarms of them and my brother pinging them with a tennis racket - they made an amazing buzzing noise when he did.
And birds like the Thrush... I remember hearing them smashing snails on rocks when I was a kid, they used to grab the climy things in their beaks and smack them on the garden path or big stones in the garden til they broke open. You used to see the broken shells lying around. You never see them these days...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
The most amazing change to the natural world that I have noticed is that when I was a kid watching nature documentaries, the lions always noshed on zebras. These days they apparently only eat wilderbeasties.
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Indeed. I would class a daddy longlegs as being wingless. The ones with wings are called either "flying daddy longlegs" or craneflies. And there are usually loads of flying daddy longlegs in my garden in autumn hiding in the grass.chilling wrote:If it has wings it's a Crane Fly.0 -
merkin wrote:
Indeed. I would class a daddy longlegs as being wingless. The ones with wings are called either "flying daddy longlegs" or craneflies. And there are usually loads of flying daddy longlegs in my garden in autumn hiding in the grass.chilling wrote:If it has wings it's a Crane Fly.
Really? To me a daddy long legs has to have wings... I've never heard of a wingless daddy long legs unless some child has pulled the wings off...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
When's "flying ant day" this year?0
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phy2sll2 wrote:When's "flying ant day" this year?
Damn you; I was just about to suggest the same thing."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Flying ant day is usually on a particularly hot, still day in August so it probably won't happen at all this year...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0
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I bet all the daddy long legs will come crawling out of the ground once the weather warms up (if ever).
Last year there were plenty in my area - I figured not so this year due to all the rain.0 -
Just to clear thing up
Crane Fly
Daddy Long Legs
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chilling wrote:Just to clear thing up
Crane Fly
Daddy Long Legs
Nah, you see for me, the tope one is a Cranefly and daddy long legs, Cranefly is just the more formal name. The 2nd one is a Harvester Spider...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0
