[Misc] Daddy Long Legs

[B-right-on]

WTF is it with them this year. Bloody hundreds of the damn things.

Never seen so many.

 

[darkwolf666]

Millions of the buggers here in Kent.

I blame global warming, or the Chinese, take your pick.

 

[Questions]

Millions of the buggers here in Kent.

I blame global warming, or the Chinese, take your pick.

Have The Daily Mail described them as blood sucking mutant Crane flies yet?

 

[Coldeanseagull]

It could be the fact we had a mild winter, so less leatherjackets succumbed to adverse weather......but we'll go with other theories if people want to

 

[Justice]

Haven’t seen any

 

[Barham's tash]

Blithering ****wits all over the shop atm. Seem to take a particular liking to bludgeoning themselves trying to escape out of the never open loft skylight in our extension leading to something akin to a death assemblage on the carpet stairs.

Best thing you can do if you hate them is get a cat. They bloody love snacking on them.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Haven’t seen any

Me neither

1990 was daddylonglegsageddon. Thousands on my south east facing wall.

Plenty of hodgypigs about though.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Blithering ****wits all over the shop atm. Seem to take a particular liking to bludgeoning themselves trying to escape out of the never open loft skylight in our extension leading to something akin to a death assemblage on the carpet stairs.

Best thing you can do if you hate them is get a cat. They bloody love snacking on them.

That's a point. Cat was outside doing the 'hold me back' dance against invisible (to me, in the dark) adversaries, earlier. Could be the ddlls.

Or possibly 5G aliens

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I'm always at war with leatherjackets and earlier this year gave my lawn a good dose of nematodes.

Only seen 4 DLLs this Autumn and all 4 met a swift death ....

If you have a crap lawn, chances are leatherjackets are feasting on your grass roots - ba$tards

 

[darkwolf666]

Me neither

1990 was daddylonglegsageddon. Thousands on my south east facing wall.

Plenty of hodgypigs about though.

Bit too common for Faversham... a plague of locusts, now that’s another thing!

 

[Hugo Rune]

Seen a lot of Crane Fly in the last few weeks. But not many spiders.

Some people call these Daddy Long Legs:

 

[Superphil]

It could be the fact we had a mild winter, so less leatherjackets succumbed to adverse weather......but we'll go with other theories if people want to

Badgers can confirm this, the way they’ve been digging up my lawn for them :-(

 

[Surrey_Albion]

I might be wrong but arent Daddy Longlegs the spiders that look like a little ball withspindly legs and a Crane fly is the horrible cant fly properly things that seem to be everywhere, East Surrey Hospital Bus stop was covered in the evil ******** yesterday morning

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Daddy Longlegs ate my lawn. Cost £2k+ to replace it with artificial grass during lockdown. That'll teach them - oh, wait a minute...

 

[AmexRuislip]

They seem attracted to my computer screen at work.
Especially at night when I'm typing an email etc.....
A ruler comes in handy, trying to launch them back through the window!

 

[Hugo Rune]

I might be wrong but arent Daddy Longlegs the spiders that look like a little ball withspindly legs and a Crane fly is the horrible cant fly properly things that seem to be everywhere, East Surrey Hospital Bus stop was covered in the evil ******** yesterday morning

This is a Daddy Long Legs:

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Badgers can confirm this, the way they’ve been digging up my lawn for them :-(

There is a way to rid the badgers.

Put a can of shaving foam in the middle of your lawn.


If that fails (serious way), drink loads of beer and spirits, wait an hour and get out there with the friend that you hold so close to you and hose the lawn, being careful to circle the borders of the lawn with that Urea.

You have now marked your territory if that fails, go the jasper carrot mole killing route.

 

[dazzer6666]

This is a Daddy Long Legs:

Also not incorrect to refer to the crane fly as DDL (The Wildlife Trusts do so)..........maybe it’s a local thing. Certainly growing up in Devon the Crane Fly was always the DDL - never heard the Harvestman referred to as DDL........

There are bloody millions of crane fly about. Never seen so many.

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/flies/daddy-longlegs

 

[Questions]

Crane flies just mince about all day. I bet they have little respect from the rest of the insect world.

 

[Norman Potting]

Surprised this hasn't appeared yet - this was the "proper" one.