Friday, April 23, 2010

A disturbed cluster of daddy long legs in a tree

10 comments:

arbroath said...

WORST NIGHTMARE!

Oh, god the heebie-jeebies.

arbroath said...

that assures that I'll be sleepless the next couple nights!!!  GROSS!

arbroath said...

these are spiders - daddy long-legs have wings dont' they? anyway, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.

arbroath said...

Ew ew ew ha ha awesome.

arbroath said...

Nice start of the weekend thank you...!

Now I certainly need a drink...

arbroath said...

Daddy long legs are arachnids, but not spiders... but they also don't have wings.

arbroath said...

I knew I shouldn't have watched that! I totally have the heebie geebies right now. Oh god, flashbacks!

arbroath said...

There must be a langauge issue here, where I am (Scotland, UK) Daddy Long Legs most definitely have wings and what's in this clip are Spiders....lots and lots of Spiders....a whole herd of them....EEEEEKKKKKK !

arbroath said...

Hmmm... in different parts of Canada, people use "Daddy Long Legs" to refer to different things.

Where I grew up (West Coast), it referred to something that I've since heard called a "harvester" -- an arachnid with a pill-shaped little body and eight long, spindly.

In the prairies, it can refer to what I know as a "crane fly" -- a long-legged flying insect that looks like a giant mosquito and somehow always gets stuck where the wall meets the ceiling.

arbroath said...

In the UK (or at least England where I'm living) a 'daddy long legs' is a crane fly - I think the Brits would call the things in the video 'harvesters' which is what I called daddy long legs in Canada where I grew up.