Author Topic: Sleeping with the enemy  (Read 7719 times)

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Sleeping with the enemy
« on: September 04, 2013, 03:50:56 pm »
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  :(
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2013, 04:22:35 pm »
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!!
 

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2013, 05:08:42 pm »
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:

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2013, 06:12:18 pm »
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

funkyfish

  • Joined Nov 2011
  • Devon
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2013, 07:40:12 pm »
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!
Old and rare breed Ducks, chickens, geese, sheep, guinea pigs, 3 dogs, 3 cats, husband and chicks brooding in the tv cabinate!

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2013, 07:44:35 pm »
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 .
Anne

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2013, 07:53:29 pm »
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:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2013, 08:23:49 pm »
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

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2013, 08:26:25 pm »
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
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2013, 08:48:08 pm »
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

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2013, 08:51:42 pm »
Eugh, I'd have freaked out!! Actually....... I make bath bombs with flowers in  :innocent:
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2013, 10:33:59 pm »
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.

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2013, 07:27:50 am »

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?
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2013, 07:34:42 am »
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!!!

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Sleeping with the enemy
« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2013, 08:28:40 am »


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
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

 

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