IceMaiden

That was bad ......... I had to read it three times before I got it!!!!!!!!!

Daedra

Oh thank god, thought I was the only one being invaded every night by (minimum) 5 daddy (jenny) long legs. Bugs scare the p*** out of me in general, especially the corking HUGE spiders that have been invading our house of late

As for those fruit flies or midges or whatever they are, not scared of them but hate 'em! I know what you h_henry means, they always seem to find my wine glass & then have the nerve to take a dip in my chardonay without permission!

Bleech

Not a Daddy Longlegs, but in the last few weeks we've had loads of these Black Widows hanging (arf) around outside our house.
Sorry for the bad photo, but I didn't want to get too close to it

Daddy Longlegs are known as Pholcus Phalangioides in Bristol
Aren't they supposed to be the most poisoness creature in the world?

IceMaiden

Spiders and bugs don't bother me too much, but that looks horrible!!

Did you mean that Daddy longlegs are poisonous or poisonless?........

Bleech

Errr umm I meant poisoness, it's like poisonous, but worse

Daedra

Yech.. think you got the poisonessess mixed up, thought Black Widows are the poisonessest spiders in North America, only out-done by the Australian Redback (are they called red-back??) ugh ugh ugh, spiders are the most hideous creatures God (or whoever created this place) ever thought up! <insert puky smiley here>

P.S English teachers please do not read this thread

Bleech

In the Okanagan we have to watch out for the Brown Recluse or Hobo (arf) spider. When it bites you it infects you with a sort of skin eating desease, not nice. I was going to post some pictures, but they're pretty grim, open at your own risk

http://thefuntimesguide.com/movablet...wnrecluse.html

Rete

It that the bug that we call a thousand legger here in the NE of the US?

Daedra

:scared: I'm gonna have nightmares about spiders biting me & my body parts falling off... ick! Why'd I look?! *lol*

Daedra

Not sure Rete, I always called them Daddy Long Legs in Canada too... here's a photo of the CA equivalent... they are technically "Crane Flies" but still look like horribly big clumsy flying spiders to me and they always come straight at me (but as you may have guessed, I'm a bit of an archnophobe ) attaching photo of Canadian version.

Found this article on the web, seems there is a population explosion in the UK of the little critters:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...nclimate20.xml

IceMaiden

I didn't look! I'm not an arachnophobe but......... I want to be able to sleep at night

Mr Lee

That's a myth I'm afraid.
It refers to the harvestman, a spider-like creepy-crawly with long dangly legs and a small body which are known as "daddy-long-legs" in North America.

Check out THIS link for more info.

Atlantic Xpat

At brunch with our Australian next door neighbours t'other day we got talking about things that can kill you (& really the lack of them in NL) and Tony said, 'Oh we found a redback spider in some of our garden furniture we brought over from Oz'....fortunately in response to our concerned/incredulous/petrified looks as we contemplated a plague of deadly spiders invading our rocky and pleasant island....he continued 'it was very dead!' Phew!

Daedra

*LOL* I'm glad THAT had a happy ending... tell the truth, I've been getting heeby jeebies all afternoon feeling like something creepy crawly is on me... gonna have a (too bad they dont have one of white wine!) and chill myself out

Jerseygirl

I call that a Daddy Long Legs too. My husband...who is also a Brit...says Daddy Long Legs are spiders...the ones with the tiny bodies and loooooong legs.