Daddy Long Legs.

"terrifying insects"?

For God's sake they are totally harmless, if a bit of a nuisance and unpleasant in the bedroom.

Their larvae, leatherjackets, are the major food source of rooks, so a good population this year will mean less baby rooks will die of starvation next tear.

It's an ill wind ............ .
 

In OZ daddy long legs are spiders

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They inhabit the corners of rooms and are a bit messy but I am totally incapable of killing one because they are so fragile looking.
When I dust the walls they tend to drop to the floor and wobble away across the room and I know that as soon as they are able, they will climb up and resume life as usual. They are totally harmless to humans.
 
COOK'S CORNER.

Today's recipe - Daddy Long Leg Broth.

Ingredients:
2Kg (4.5lbs) of fresh Daddy Long Legs.
Tab. Plain Flour.
100gm Chopped Mushrooms.
Half-onion, sliced.
Half-pint of well water.
Worcester Sauce.
Oxo Cube.
Salt.
Pepper.
Mixed Herbs.

Preparation:
Remove back legs only of the Daddy Long Legs. Keep to one side for additional flavouring.
Take one freshly squeezed Jelly fish, and mix into a puree with the chopped onions, add salt and pepper.
Place the puree into a small saucepan, and allow to simmer for 24 hours.

Excuse me - the telephone is ringing........
 
Han, you killed the poor dear things??????? Murderer!!!!!! Did you have to kill them?!?!? :sorrow::sorrow::sorrow:
 
I don't mind daddy long legs. I haven't seen one in a long time, though. Spiders don't bother me and I don't bother them.
 
Shirley said:
Han, you killed the poor dear things??????? Murderer!!!!!! Did you have to kill them?!?!? :sorrow::sorrow::sorrow:
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I didn't kill them, Shirley.
I just cooked them.

Well, OK, so I pulled the back legs off them - but they had too many to start off with.

They are full of vitamins and proteins and stuff...
... and they taste a little like nutmeg.
 
Davey Jones said:
Bet we, in Florida, got more love bug then you have with you Daddys.
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Hey, Mon, da sounds like a Rapper with dat langwidge...

I know Florida very well. Your lovebugs (or ladybirds as well call them over this side of the pond) try to eat you - ours don't.

... and what about those lovely caterpillars that fall out of the oak trees in April. They are so priddy...!!!
They try to eat you as well...
 
Hanfonius said:
Great. So we can eagerly expect a plague of rooks next year.

I'm looking forward to that.
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Surely such a benign species can hardly be a plague?

They are one of the rare species that does not depend on man in any way at all, yet invariably nests in his close proximity.

There cannot be a farmhouse, in the UK anyway, that does not have a rookery.
 
Warrigal said:
In OZ daddy long legs are spiders

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They inhabit the corners of rooms and are a bit messy but I am totally incapable of killing one because they are so fragile looking.
When I dust the walls they tend to drop to the floor and wobble away across the room and I know that as soon as they are able, they will climb up and resume life as usual. They are totally harmless to humans.
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Here, too. I hate 'em -- they give me the creeps.
 
One of the reasons I am reluctant to kill daddy long legs spiders is because when I was a child we had an outside unsewered toilet down the path in the back yard. It invariably had a daddy long legs hanging in the corner near the door. While perched on the loo I would summon up a lungful of air and blow on it. This would set off a spasm of shaking which amused me no end. My mercy now is atonement for harassing them back then.

Another is the name. How can you kill something with the delightful name 'daddy long legs'?

Finally, these harmless spiders have been known to kill and eat redback spiders, a species similar to the black widow, which is a very venomous spider that lurks around the house and garden. Those spiders I have no qualms about killing whenever I detect them.

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