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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bionic on September 04, 2013, 03:50:56 pm
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I was just making the bed and found a dead daddy long legs inside. I really can't stand them and to think it was in bed with me and I didn't know :(
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Poor daddy long leg you must have killed it, how could you? :-J
I smiled when I saw I had a cob web on the wing mirror and a daddy long legs had taken the journey with me, it must have enjoyed the ride!!
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I smiled when I saw I had a cob web on the wing mirror and a daddy long legs had taken the journey with me, it must have enjoyed the ride!!
What - just before the spider ate it? :innocent:
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I was just making the bed and found a dead daddy long legs inside. I really can't stand them and to think it was in bed with me and I didn't know :(
They give me the creeps
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I am absolutely terrified of them! For no reason, I cannot be in the room with one!!! One was in the car last night, I slammed on the break and ran out of the car- luckily it was a quiet road, and Hubby was there to get it out of the car. I am completely irrational about them!
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I'm terrified of them too its the thought of their legs coming off that freaks me out, totally irrational I know but I just can't help it. They ruin summer for me as I can't leave the patio doors open if the light is on as they swarm in then by the dozen .
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I can't sleep if there's a fly in my room. I have to get up and switch lights on and off to entice it out to the hall and slam the door shut quick :innocent:
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I am only scared of snakes or some of the horrid evil things that live in the sea so not much chance of any of them in my bed...they do say we all eat a few spiders and flies at night :P
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eugh no, I feel your pain. I'd hate to wake up with anything that creepy in my bed (its been a close call in the past, mind you :-J ) don't like anything in the bath with me either, you know sometimes you are relaxing and a dead spider floats up - glug glug.... :o
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Plumbs I had some lovley bath bombs years ago full of flowers and they looked just like a load of flies in the bath :o
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Eugh, I'd have freaked out!! Actually....... I make bath bombs with flowers in :innocent:
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I can't sleep if there's a fly in my room. I have to get up and switch lights on and off to entice it out to the hall and slam the door shut quick :innocent:
I thought I was clever for working that one out, mainly because they wake you up early with their buzzing against the windows. it also works when there is a fly in the kitchen, I pull the blinds on + open the door into the passage where there is a window opposite.
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This has been the worst year for Daddy Long-Legs that I can remember. If we leave a bucket of water out overnight, it invariably has a dozen or so of them in it by the morning.
I think it may be due to the very wet weather last year, but is anybody else seeing them in abnormally large numbers at the moment?
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dont think i seen any yet, will pay more attention...
although generally i find they have a short life span here as the cat loves to hunt them!!!
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I think it may be due to the very wet weather last year, but is anybody else seeing them in abnormally large numbers at the moment?
Yes, loads of them and wasps too
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Not so many daddy long legs but wasps in abundance. I think its down to the lateness of this years plum harvest (here anyway) and when we were in cornwall it was impossible to have an ice cream or coke or anything, blardy things.
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Yes lots more daddy longlegs than usual, I'd already commented to OH. In water buckets - and in the house, :-(
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I am absolutely terrified of them! For no reason, I cannot be in the room with one!!! One was in the car last night, I slammed on the break and ran out of the car- luckily it was a quiet road, and Hubby was there to get it out of the car. I am completely irrational about them!
I am with you on this one, I have an irrational fear of them. I don't care about spiders or snakes but a daddy long legs will turn me to jelly. Absolutely ridiculous. I got one caught in my long hair when i was a child and in trying to get it out it fell to bits and i just freaked out. My Mum took ages to calm me down. That fear has lived with me all these years. I also freak if there's one in the car it's dangerous but i can't help it! :o
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There are ridiculous numbers of them this year. Oh well, they keep the cats amused.
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I've only seen one so far this year. They don't bother me but I did wake up one morning and discover I had shared the bed with a very large spider and it was still ALIVE.
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I've only seen one so far this year. They don't bother me but I did wake up one morning and discover I had shared the bed with a very large spider and it was still ALIVE.
AAAArgh!!
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Exactly. And to make matters worse, I thought it was dead until I tried to pick it up.
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Don't mind the old Daddy LL ... not a lover of big spiders though :innocent:
my worst bed enemy is blue cheese :roflanim: it started one day in france, H & me bought some lovely local blue cheese... the sort you put down knowing you want another bit right away...anyway! i had been hitting this blue cheese all day, on crackers, or that crispy bread they do.... that night helen cooked a meal and sprinkled more blue cheese over it.......
halfway through the night..I sat up watching this 2ft blue spider walking down the wall, being followed by a 4ft long blue lizard ..... helen woke up and asked me if i was ok....."look" i said, "look at that blue spider" "Your Dreaming Dear" she said....yet it was sooooooo real ... and even worse...it was so clear :thinking:
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Remind me never to overdose on blue cheese (which I love). I've had nightmares about spiders but not that big. I think I might just die of fright.
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ANY cheese after early evening gives me bad dreams/nightmares, learned a long timeago to not to risk it, and yes, they do seem SO real.
when in living in Scotland we had a lean-to against the house where we kept the wood for the fire, when I went to get some to break it up, it was alive with earwigs. after that I woke up hitting the pillow which I could see earwigs all over it - in the pitch black night? bad dream. (that was over 30 years ago and I still remember it vividly)
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Wasps and hornet season so i check the bed every night and sometimes have the fuff of getting them out of a window without them releasing a distressed signal for all their mates to turn up. We had 3 deaths around here caused by hornet attacks last year and so I won't kill them now.
And just for you snake lovers I lost one in the wood pile yesterday.