Elongated-limbed Fathers

[Square Eyes]

No, the country is being besieged by them, more here :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... mate20.xml

As they only live for 3 days in their adult form they have chosen to spend part of that time with you on your monitor, makes you feel warm and tingly doesn't it ?

[DAS]

FACT ATTACK: I have never encountered a daddy long legs anywhere near my house, yet when I lived in Kent they were, quite lid-erally, everywhere.

[Gavin Scott]

Ha!

I've just spent a couple of minutes wondering what the noise was only to discover a huge daddy long legs rattling in a paper lampshade.

Yes, a paper lamp shade. How passé.

[Lorns]

Those things have been driving Mouse crazy. He's caught tons of them. It's been quite entertaing to watch. He's launched himself into the mirrors a few times in the process of his hunting but on the whole he is a sharp little devil. He doesn't like the taste of them very much.

[rts]

I'm glad this has cropped up. I've been besieged by the little bugger lately.

[Neil Jones]

I loathe crane flies. Soon as I see one, it gets a cup placed over it, a piece of paper slid under it and a free trip to the nearest window. Spiders get this service as well, especially the bigger ones. Not keen on touching any of them if I can help it.

[Rob Del Monte]

I saw in cpc catalogue, this device on a stick, that captures spiders, and other insects, so you can let them out of the window, and it does not hurt them. One pulls a trigger when they are over the insect, to pick it up.

I like crane flies. I don't like spiders' webs, so I don't like spiders, but it isn't the spider I actually don't like. People get confused when I don't like a money-spider, saying it's tiny. Indeed it is the web that is bothering me, not the spider, but it is a hassel explaining. "That spider in a web is bothering me." "That‽ it is tiny!"; "Yeah, but it is the web i have a problem with don't like, not the spider, the spider is merely a pre-cursor to the web." "… Yeah, but its tiny!".

I love crane-flies, they are cute, like all animals (I think we are so privilledged to have so many animals, species, plants, life on this planet. To be able to look out and see such a boasting of biological eco-systems is remarkable, when scientists are getting excited about a supposed bacterium in a piece of martian rock), and in my house, they are always getting caught in webs, and getting their legs all-tangled-up. I saw one, who had had two of its legs stuck together, and after trying to use other objects, I had to summon the courage to use my fingers to part them. I think that an insect is worth the bother.

[Lorns]

I love Spiders and spiders webs. I don't like walking into them very much as i hate breaking the web.
It's is absolutely fascinating watching a spider weave it's web. Amazing stuff!