200 Billion Daddy Long Legs on the way

Capt'n Midnight · 07-09-2016 9:43pm #1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/06/invasion-of-almost-200-billion-daddy-long-legs-will-insects-spre/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

forget about flying ants, these'll be heading our way next :eek:

see you in the salt mines

The Backwards Man · 07-09-2016 9:46pm

Remember when journalists had integrity and they reported actual news instead of pure unadulterated nonsense?

Well, neither do I, but I remember when they weren't as blatant about it.

me_irl · 07-09-2016 9:46pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

Barry Badrinath · 07-09-2016 9:47pm

Shotgun - check

Electric zapper raquet thing - check

Cans of Monster - check

Bring it bitches.

RobertKK · 07-09-2016 9:48pm

It must have been a pain to count them all.

The Backwards Man · 07-09-2016 9:49pm

On the subject of cranes, what was the name of the buck that done double picture shows with the pink panther? He was good craic

maudgonner · 07-09-2016 9:53pm

200 billion Daddy Long Legs, eh?

I'm off to buy up stocks of teeny tiny shoes & legwarmers. Gonna make me a fortune!

Fr_Dougal · 07-09-2016 9:53pm

#daddylonglegs4justice

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-09-2016 9:53pm

The sooner Merkel is gone the better

maudgonner · 07-09-2016 9:54pm

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

#daddylonglegs4justice

#DLLLM

maudgonner · 07-09-2016 9:56pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

On the subject of cranes, what was the name of the buck that done double picture shows with the pink panther? He was good craic

This lad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEdDfVUtkIQ

Harry Palmr · 07-09-2016 9:56pm

I'd prefer fake spiders to those damned midges and low budget flies.

JRant · 07-09-2016 10:00pm

I'm no good at judging the size of crowds Ted, but I'd say there's about seventeen million of them out there.

maudgonner · 07-09-2016 10:03pm

Anyway that article is from The Telegraph, so they'll only be in the UK. If we can rush Brexit through they won't be allowed in here.

Moo Moo Land · 07-09-2016 10:04pm

I love picking off each and every one of their legs and making them Daddy-No-Legs.

jimmy blevins · 07-09-2016 10:06pm

Moo Moo Land wrote: »

I love picking off each and every one of their legs and making them Daddy-No-Legs.

You sick bastard.

worded · 07-09-2016 10:08pm

spider obesity will be on the rise this year with all this food

Ted111 · 07-09-2016 10:10pm

It's perfectly simple. They merely extrapolate how many daddy long
legs are in one square meter and then they add 17 zeros. And subtract 26.

osarusan · 07-09-2016 10:12pm

I for one, welcome....etc

Samaris · 07-09-2016 10:17pm

worded wrote: »

spider obesity will be on the rise this year with all this food

Some very fat ones already on our outside window. We had an absolute cloud of midges on it - I went outside for two-three minutes and was eaten alive. The spiders were in arachnid heaven with a veritable feast swarming into their webs.

elfy4eva · 07-09-2016 10:21pm

They have to be the clumsiest insect on the planet.

BorneTobyWilde · 07-09-2016 10:23pm

How come they're all male, will there be some female Mommy Long Sexy Legs

Gwynplaine · 07-09-2016 10:39pm

Mammy short arms.

fatknacker · 07-09-2016 11:18pm

Daddy long legs. Who named you?

fatknacker · 07-09-2016 11:19pm

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Mammy short arms.

Damn that thalidomide.

endacl · 07-09-2016 11:21pm

Moo Moo Land wrote: »

I love picking off each and every one of their legs and making them Daddy-No-Legs.

200,000,000,000 X 6 = fcuk that.

Junkyard Tom · 07-09-2016 11:24pm

A great way to deal with these creatures, if one manages to get indoors, is to lift up a friendly cat and have him instinctively murder it with his furry little paws.

Stigura · 07-09-2016 11:33pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The sooner Merkel is gone the better

Bugger! Ye got that one in before me!

JakeBell · 07-09-2016 11:35pm

I think most of them turned up in my place over the last fortnight actually.

Stigura · 07-09-2016 11:40pm

maudgonner wrote: »

#DLLLM

Damn! I'd come in here hoping to do that one too!!!

Oh well. Just to get my oar in:

“Crane flies are completely harmless,” says Mr Dimond. "

Yeah? Dead sneaky, Mr D! I see what ye just did there! The adult Crane Fly's harmless. But, their bloody kids ~ Leatherjackets ~ scoff grass from under the ground. Like the insect worlds answer to bloody rodents, they are! :mad:

foxy farmer · 07-09-2016 11:50pm

As a farmer I'm wondering is this as a result of taking the insecticide that kills the larval stage of the cranefly (leather jacket ) off the market. Certain crops are attacked by the leather jacket and to prevent this small blue slug pellets or flakes were spread on the soil at planting to kill the larvae before they attacked the seedlings.
The replacement product is not as effective so I'm told and more expensive too.

Ghetofarmulous · 08-09-2016 12:17am

Wont have to feed the cat for a bit and....

Im going to get the fly rod out:D

My name is URL · 08-09-2016 1:26am

foxy farmer wrote: »

As a farmer I'm wondering is this as a result of taking the insecticide that kills the larval stage of the cranefly (leather jacket ) off the market. Certain crops are attacked by the leather jacket and to prevent this small blue slug pellets or flakes were spread on the soil at planting to kill the larvae before they attacked the seedlings.
The replacement product is not as effective so I'm told and more expensive too.

Did the guy selling the slug pellets tell you that?

foxy farmer · 08-09-2016 1:31am

My name is URL wrote: »

Did the guy selling the slug pellets tell you that?

No the lads using it.

MiskyBoyy · 08-09-2016 1:32am

So that explains why so many of the little feckers have come into my house recently.

KungPao · 08-09-2016 1:32am

It's the house spiders I fear. Already had a few encounters recently, I don't want to talk about it. Crane flies are just silly big ants with wings, they are humorous little fellas.

My name is URL · 08-09-2016 1:40am

foxy farmer wrote: »

No the lads using it.

You'd be killing a lot of beneficial critters too if you were just to mix it in with soil. like that

I doubt it'd even be legal to put so much of it down and sell the crop