Well to be fair they never had much risk of getting burnt flying towards the moon:).
Actually thinking about it they've had since the invention of candles to learn, possibly too teeny-tiny brained to evolve, but then again 3000 years? is still a pimple in their existence.
hate them. Am forever saying they seem to have increased in population lately. I hate it when they are joined at the ''tail'' thing, mating i assume, and are floating about frantically ..ew
Just you thank your stars their sting things aren't any longer, apparently they are the most venemous creatures of the planet, but their sting thingy's (forget the name for it) aren't long enough to penetrate human skin :eek:
A common myth, but not true.
Crane flies do not have a sting, or a poison. The females have an ovipositor that may look like a sting - but it is not.
OH and I have a system sorted out. I'm terrified of spiders and he's scared of crane flies, he gets shot of the spiders and i evict the crane flies.
Loads of them about at the moment. Surrounded by arable fields, so we always get them.
I think they do feel pain, I was accidentally heavy handed with one and it found itself short of a leg, and it curled in on itself, like you'd go into foetal position to protect yourself when hurt.
hhmm .. i didn't realise daddy longlegs were part of the monkey family then
daddy longlegs are insects, and so is anything else with 6 legs, a spider has 8 legs and isn't an insect. A spider is in the same family as scorpions and crabs.
hhmm .. i didn't realise daddy longlegs were part of the monkey family then
Hmmm...I take it you are getting confused as to what's actually being referred to as a 'daddy long-legs' in this thread - and that is a crane fly. Which is certainly not a spider.
daddy longlegs are insects, and so is anything else with 6 legs, a spider has 8 legs and isn't an insect. A spider is in the same family as scorpions and crabs.
Crabs are actually in a different family to spiders and scorpions.
hate them. Am forever saying they seem to have increased in population lately. I hate it when they are joined at the ''tail'' thing, mating i assume, and are floating about frantically ..ew
Me too, and why do they ALWAYS head for my face??? I can't bear them, but I know now is the time of year for them. Their eggs are under your lawn and they hatch from there, (specially soon after you've cut the grass and disturbed them).
Fortunately, they are not around for long, but meantime, I will sweat buckets inside with all doors and windows closed). :D
What's going on with them lately? We can't leave a window open for a second without a swarm of them flying in. And when I say 'flying' I mean that pathetic clumsy flutter that they do.
And is it me or have they gotten so much bigger!?
The short, sharp, intermittent periods of buzzing and bumping against the blinds is enough to drive you crazy when you're trying to get some bloody sleep.
Pathetic creatures.
:mad:
Up here? I thought you were over there?
We have seen a lot more of them this summer. Usually every day walk in to the bathroom and see 4 or 5 dead in the bath.
Me too, and why do they ALWAYS head for my face??? I can't bear them, but I know now is the time of year for them. Their eggs are under your lawn and they hatch from there, (specially soon after you've cut the grass and disturbed them).
Fortunately, they are not around for long, but meantime, I will sweat buckets inside with all doors and windows closed). :D
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They're the only large insect that I will happily pick up gently and put outside.
It's the damn moths that I find really annoying. There are loads of them!
A common myth, but not true.
Crane flies do not have a sting, or a poison. The females have an ovipositor that may look like a sting - but it is not.
OK I thought you were saying what's the point in my post lol
Loads of them about at the moment. Surrounded by arable fields, so we always get them.
I think they do feel pain, I was accidentally heavy handed with one and it found itself short of a leg, and it curled in on itself, like you'd go into foetal position to protect yourself when hurt.
hhmm .. i didn't realise daddy longlegs were part of the monkey family then
daddy longlegs are insects, and so is anything else with 6 legs, a spider has 8 legs and isn't an insect. A spider is in the same family as scorpions and crabs.
So, to summarise, you are wrong.
Hope this helps
Crabs are actually in a different family to spiders and scorpions.
Me too, and why do they ALWAYS head for my face??? I can't bear them, but I know now is the time of year for them. Their eggs are under your lawn and they hatch from there, (specially soon after you've cut the grass and disturbed them).
Fortunately, they are not around for long, but meantime, I will sweat buckets inside with all doors and windows closed).
We have seen a lot more of them this summer. Usually every day walk in to the bathroom and see 4 or 5 dead in the bath.
Yet a disinct lack of bees and wasps this summer.
Balloons and daddy long legs I'm petrified of them
A couple of days later, it is dead on the windowsill.
Aanother dead on the floor. And one flying around my paper lightshade, which, in turn, supersizes it.
My neighbours doorbell has daddy longlegs legs all over it. *Shudders*
Maybe they weren't able to get a mate to get jiggy with.
*Vomit* at eggs bit
Local parlance then. Never referred to them as daddy long legs as long as i've been alive. but fair play, i'll leave you to it.