Weirdest interloper

[boxy]

This time of year, it's a common problem to be shooshing insects off the 'puter screen, but what's the weirdest thing you've hunted?

Just had a spider run across mine... well, half way across, stopping, fair in the middle, laffin Only a baby though.

[IQS.RLOW]

but what's the weirdest thing you've hunted?

Monk

[Super Nova]

When I first came ti the UK. I was working on the laptop at home and a great big thing that look like a mosquito came buzzing around. I shooed it away and thought.. OMG that is the biggest mosquito I have every seen. It was about 2-3 inch in total size.

i rang my wife and said "I have just seen the biggest mosquito in my life, i know there aren't many here by they are f..kn big".

when she got home i found it and showed it to her. I looked at the head and could not see the normal point to stick it to you.

I went to work the next day and told someone about it. they laughed and said... that is a "daddy longlegs". In Aust that tend not to fly. here they have flying ones. The buggers are around for months depending on the weather. Felt like a fool but was glad they are not mosquitoes.

Do daddylongs fly in Australia or is my recollection poor. Do they fly when breeding maybe.

[AiA in Atlanta]

When I first came ti the UK. I was working on the laptop at home and a great big thing that look like a mosquito came buzzing around. I shooed it away and thought.. OMG that is the biggest mosquito I have every seen. It was about 2-3 inch in total size.

i rang my wife and said "I have just seen the biggest mosquito in my life, i know there aren't many here by they are f..kn big".

when she got home i found it and showed it to her. I looked at the head and could not see the normal point to stick it to you.

I went to work the next day and told someone about it. they laughed and said... that is a "daddy longlegs". In Aust that tend not to fly. here they have flying ones. The buggers are around for months depending on the weather. Felt like a fool but was glad they are not mosquitoes.

Do daddylongs fly in Australia or is my recollection poor. Do they fly when breeding maybe.

The ones in the UK are some kind of fly. The daddy longlegs in the States is an arachnid, not actually a spider (though everyone calls them spiders). The ones in AUS are indeed a true spider.

[Super Nova]

Aia,

A quick google and you are correct, of course. I never thought they were a spider. You learn something new everyday.

The Daddy-long-legs Spider builds irregular webs in sheltered areas, often in and around human habitation including houses, garages and sheds. Its successful use of human-made structures has made it one of the most common spiders in Australia.

Sometimes called 'daddy long-legs', there are around 300 different species of cranefly in the UK. Each species has the familiar long gangly legs, and tiny back wings, which look like a pair of tiny clubs. They work like gyroscopes, helping the fly to keep its balance.

[mantra]

but what's the weirdest thing you've hunted?

Monk

I could never understand why people took an active dislike towards someone else on cyber space, but recently it's happened to me. Someone so weird, such a pathological liar, so crass, low and insane can spout utter bullcrap over and over again on a site and get away with it because of the sheer volume of posts made by "it" and it's many socks.

I've come to the conclusion that you have to ignore them, or if you do comment on their posts, keep the comments within some boundaries at least.

I can understand IQ's frustration, although Monk's harmless compared to another cyber psycho that's recently been released from it's containment - either a prison or a funny farm.

[AiA in Atlanta]

There is some kind of fly here that is similar to the daddy longlegs fly in the UK ... don't know what it is called but it looks like a giant mosquito. Maybe it is an British import ...

[AiA in Atlanta]

I can understand IQ's frustration, although Monk's harmless compared to another cyber psycho that's recently been released from it's containment - either a prison or a funny farm.

Sounds like someone who used to post here but now is our resident voyeur.

[mantra]

Hmmm.

It probably is, but who knows. Only the truly gutless lurk in dark corners or use different nicks to have their say. We're all anonymous to an extent so I can't see the point of socks.

[Outlaw Yogi]

I don't cook in, and let the little brown frogs live in my caravan (out in the bush) because I'm too lazy to hunt bugs most of the time. Seems to work, I don't get cockroaches. Must be a bugs nightmare out there ATM, 'coz I've got a frog plague. There's 40+ big green tree frogs under a Toyota Hiace van rear door that won't close properly. At night they probably outnumber the toads by 3 or more to 1.
There'd probably be 100 in the Toyata but I let a 5 ft long red belly live in that van, cos black snakes eat baby brown snakes.
Most common spiders would be Trap-door (bit like a Funnelweb) and Golden Orb, both look mean and nasty.
Got bitten by a Huntsman (sub species of Wolf spider) on the palm of my hand while working on a banana plantation years ago, the only reaction was a tiny red dot where I was bitten. I've been stung by paper wasps so many times I'm now immune to wasp and Bullant stings, as they no longer hurt they don't worry me, so don't even bother attacking/stinging anymore.