[Sesquipedalian]

http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/22/spiders021121

Really, really odd stuff, this is.  Anyone want to propose a theory of their own on this?

[Fineus]

My goodness, that's huge! I mean the spiders are small but.... that's incredible.

[Sesquipedalian]

And they don't even care if bugs land in it!  What are they doing???  And look behind the guy in the third picture, it stretches across the whole field.

[diamondgeezer]

I really, really, really hate spiders... evil little beggars. Never trust any creature with four times as many legs as you...

[Sesquipedalian]

Or big ones with 2.5 times as many.

[CP5670]

Anyone seen those weird looking spiders called "daddy long legs?" They are all over the place outside my house; they seem to have seven of their legs about an inch long each and the eighth leg maybe 3.5 inches long. (seriously)

[karajorma]

Originally posted by CP5670
Anyone seen those weird looking spiders called "daddy long legs?" They are all over the place outside my house; they seem to have seven of their legs about an inch long each and the eighth leg maybe 3.5 inches long. (seriously)

Why do you americans insist on renaming everything!

Daddy long legs is the nickname for the cranefly not the harvest spider.

Father long legs my arse!

[Shrike]

Ha!  BC rules!

[diamondgeezer]

I ****ing hate daddy long legs as well, pardon my Klatchian, on the basis that they look like spiders but they FLY!

Summer over here sees me heavily armed with bug spray, a rolled up newspaper, and an SA80. That's usually enough to discourage the little buggers...

[Gortef]

Oh my god! That web really is huge

Busy little buggers aren't they

[Razor]

Bugs are annoying. In Yugoslavia, there are some really nasty bugs, big, black and they fly too. Whne they sting, it feels like someone is stabing you with a niddle at the same spot over and over and over. Nasty! My younger sister got stinged by one of those. They appear always at night. Belive it or not, but during the summer, it's 30 degrees C at night. Now that's hot weather for you folks.

[CP5670]

Why do you americans insist on renaming everything!

Daddy long legs is the nickname for the cranefly not the harvest spider.

Father long legs my arse!

eh, the flying one is something different that looks similar (at least one always comes into the house if the door is left open for over 30 seconds while it is dark outside); the thing I am talking about is a walker. I don't know what these thigns are called; I just see them every now and then.

[karajorma]

The spider you`re talking about is almost certainly a harvest spider.

You americans insist on calling that kind of spider a daddy long legs which is a name the brits use for crane flys. According to the link I gave for some reason you americans refer to those as Father long legs which is quite possibly the stupidest name I`ve ever heard of

[CP5670]

hey, I didn't invent it. All I know is that it has 8 legs (7 long and one really long) attached to a small body that comes in some shade of red and brown, and I see them on the pavement outside quite often.

[karajorma]

That's the harvest spider.



and that's a crane fly

[CP5670]

First one, definitely. Except the ones I have seen have one leg three times as long as the others. Now at least I know what to call it.

[Nico]

Originally posted by CP5670
First one, definitely. Except the ones I have seen have one leg three times as long as the others. Now at least I know what to call it.

leaving on a nuclear waste is no good cp

[karajorma]

The first one is actually a 3D model since I couldn`t find any pics so the real thing may indeed have one extra long leg

[IceFire]

Yes I squish both of those we gleeful abandon.

BlackFiles have to be the worst...not singularly, but when the air is thick with them and they have the habbit of taking an entire chunk of your skin out with them.