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Anyone else finding them regular visitors in the evenings at the minute..

200 billion hitting us aparently.. They seem to be everywhere at the minute
 
Plenty of iron in them, they do you good old chap. So long as they don't drink too much. I'd say.
 
I've told the family to shut windows before lights on in the evening and i'll get rid of the first two only after that they usually get the message! - I've sorted one out already.
 
My house is full of those too! Literally stuffed full of em. Loft, garage everywhere. Pull up a floorboard and there's hundreds lingering in their webs!
 
Had a few around, one of the fcukers was flitting around in the garage the other night though while I was making a brew, had to persuade that one to move on as I had visions of the stupid thing landing in my wort.
 
I started a kit last week and later on noticed there was one stuck to the sticky residue on the bottom. I such a softie I rinsed it carefully with water to release it's feet then tried to throw it out the window. It came right back in (or it's mate did) and entertained the cats for a good while.
 
fruit flies are the problem here as soon as you crack a beer they are hovering round it,if you are trying to bottle or transfer they appear from nowhere hovering round the beer and my local pub has fly paper hanging in corners,electic lights that kill em and them tennis racket style things for hitting them...its the first year its been this bad,nightmare....roll on the winter lagerlad
 
Crane flies are like donkeys, slow and cumbersome and not much fun unless wearing a hat.

Fruit flies are fun if you have an air rifle; try hitting one of those without damaging the ceiling!
 
It is a confusing term but if I mention daddy long legs to most people I know at least they will think I am referring to crane flys

Yes I would think of a daddy long legs as a crane fly. They mainly live underground as "leather-jackets" for much of their time here on our planet.

They are an insect that somehow time their emergence to coincide with each other. So that potential predators are overwhelmed by numbers and so that mates can be easily found, then eggs layed in the soil and next years crane flies stared out in their precarious life.
 
Don't you mean crane flys, daddy long legs are those spiders with a tiny body and "long legs"

I think people refer to both crane flies and Harvestmen (the long legged spiders with little bodies) as daddy long legs. Neither are actually called daddy long legs.
 
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