200 billion daddy long legs

[dazzer6666]

Apparently Manchester City have sprayed their pitch with onion to deter the critters.
Give that a go

They're already running rings round the opposition, so not really necessary. Everyone is getting battered there.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

1200 billion legs to pull off. Better get started

 

[pastafarian]

One fell in our sink full of washing up water early. Took it out quick as a flash but it was already wet through. Laid it out in the garden on the patio to dry, half hour later... Voila!.. all dried out and flying off free to go and do it's thing.

Little things like that make me happy.

same just happened to me catching up on last nights washing up, I was inspired by your post so put the little critter on the patio to dry out even though its dark and not warm yet. Nothing wrong with a bit of karma.

Returned to check on it a few minutes later and thousands of ants were eating it alive, ripping its limbs and body parts off and carting them away. It must have been a horrific death.

It would probably have lived if I had allowed it to flush down the drain naturally as usual.
Now ive also just realised there are ants under the patio, i am going to have to lift up some slabs and pour a tonne of chemicals on them probably killing millions.

Thanks for nothing.

On the plus side im now informed ants don’t go to bed.

 

[DataPoint]

Daddy-Long-Legs make my wife's legs go weak at the knees! She's terrified of them. In the last week or so, in response to scream after scream, I've had to grab a pint glass (size matters) and CD cover and firmly escort the straggly critters out of the house lecturing them as I do so, that they are NOT welcome and to tell their million mates to keep away especially from my wife's nightwear as she's preparing for bed.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

They are deemed agricultural pests. The larvae ( leather jackets ) live in the top layers of soil and feed off roots, hairs, crowns and leaves of crops. Years ago, cricket pitches and bowling greens were reduced to areas of bald patches by this activity but groundsmen know how to deal with this now. It was always said that Daddy Long Legs were favourite prey for wasps, so the later they can delay their emergence, the better their chance of survival and breeding, although their own life-span is very short anyway.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Apparently Manchester City have sprayed their pitch with onion to deter the critters.
Give that a go

Why would I want to spray the etihad when I'm the one with the problem?