Hi Only, glad your nightmare was short lived! :)

what is this
 

my husband says their leachess put some salt on them and if they start to squerm their dying off let use know

Thanks for everyones help - thankfully the worst of it seems to be over now .... you couldn't tell I'm squeamis at all could you ... :D

was it yeah on the Gerry ryan show?

I only heard someone mention yesterday that there was someone on the Gerry Ryan Show about it happening elsewhere too but they had only caught the end of it so I don't know what was said .... can anyone fill me in?

And now the bad news - more on the footpath and driveway this morning! I spotted maybe 20 around the back of the house when I was going to work. I'm sure there must have been more but I didn't go looking ...soooooo, they're coming back! ... Nothing like the numbers on Sunday morning but a lot more than yesterday morning .....

salt!
 

I had this in the usa to! Pour salt on them and it makes the die and dissolves them! Fast! seriously

only
 

Hi Only, was away and only picked up on this last night--brilliant thread. Couldn't resist penning a few lines myself!!

There was a gal called Only
who was feeling kinda lonely,
so along came lots of worms
but they only made her squirm.

Nature is a marvel,
nature is a pain,
seems all those worms came to call
because of too much rain!

Her JTowner friends told her she oughter
kill them with boiling water,
But Only couldn't hack it
to kill those leather jackets.

She said 'truth to tell
I'd rather go 'au naturelle'
I know just how to beat 'em,
we'll get the birds to eat 'em.'

Now only a few remain
but the'yll soon change again.
As sure as eggs is eggs
they'll become daddy-long-legs.
They'll be flying through the air
getting caught in Only's hair.

Then we'll hear her scream
then we'll see her squirm.
Then she'll cry 'why couldn't they,
stay as wiggly worms?'

'Nature is a marvel,
nature is just great.
Oh why can't Mother Nature stay,
outside of my front gate??!!'

Brilliant Eibhlin Only will love you giving her the thought of loads of Daddy Long Legs in her hair!!

Excellent Eibhlin!!!! ....Except for the getting caught in my hair bit!!!!!! ... You bad woman ... making me worry about that now!!!

I have to say, it was the strangest thing ... an apparently it happened to others on Sunday too ... weird.
I just hope its someone elses turn next time!

Hi ha Sparkwell, posted as you did ... was enjoying the poem until I got to that bit and now I already think I feel them in my hair ... eeeuuggghh!!

Brilliant poem Eibh. Poor Only!!! heehee

sorry
 

Hi Only, hope you know I am only having a little fun--at your expense I know but no malice intended. We used to have the same thing when we lived in Bray except it was flying black ants. We would come home and they would be all over the front door right up to the handle. We would use fly spray, ant powder, boiling water, anything to get rid of them. But every year they would come back in their hundreds and disgust us for a couple of days. Glad your problem is solved but don't forget--if the daddy long legs are about-- don't catch them by the leg cos it just comes off and they keep flying--only pulling your leg-LOL- hope it doesn't fall off too!! Yours in fun and friendship--Eibhlin.

All taken in fun Eibhlin :D
You're a mighty poet ... don't know how you come up with it all.... If I was any good at that kind of thing I'd retaliate :D ... but I haven't that gift.
The ants must have been unreal! ... At least these things were on the ground and not on the door ... am hoping its a once off ... Oh, and I promise I won't catch them by the leg .... will make hubby do it instead lol

Been watching this thread closely as I have to get out into the garden to do some prep soon for my veggie patch. I’m pretty late I know but I haven’t had time to do it recently. I’ve been pacing up and down the living room looking out at my badly neglected garden and thinking about poor Only’s little visitors. What horrors await me I wonder? It’s threads like this one puts me right off the Good Life! If I find any new ‘friends’ I’ll let ye all know but fingers crossed it’ll just be the usual old earwigs, ants, worrims, and the rest. One thing I will say however is, don’t, and I mean DON’T, hoover up creepy crawlies!!!!! Not even dead ones! EVER!!

Bless you all!

Well I wish you luck with your gardening!
Whenever I venture out I make sure I'm all gloved up ... cannot BEAR to touch any little critters.
Can I ask why no hoovering critters??? ... Is it in case they are carrying eggs and they hatch in the hoover?? Or something else I should be worrying about?? ......

daddy long legs
 

I was listening to the radio earliar on they were saying that they are daddy long legs

Yep..they'll hatch in the warmth and grow and grow till they ARE MASSIVE..And then THEY GET YOU LOL..

Thanks Chucken!!!! ... There's my nights sleep gone tonight ... lol

Heh heh heh. Sorry, falling into a Hitchcock scene there for a minute.

Anyhoo, I don't recommend hoovering up the little divils because if they ain't all really really dead, only pretending like, and you store your hoover under the stairs, what do ya think will happen then I asks ya??

Heh heh heh.

Is anyone else beginning to itch and scratch yet?

[quote=TickTock]Heh heh heh. Sorry, falling into a Hitchcock scene there for a minute.

Anyhoo, I don't recommend hoovering up the little divils because if they ain't all really really dead, only pretending like, and you store your hoover under the stairs, what do ya think will happen then I asks ya??

Heh heh hehQUOTE]

Aahhh Aahhhhhh Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooo .........

Hahahaha...poor poor squimish Only. lol lol lol.
This thread is BETTER than Hitchcock!!!
Just picturing Only jumping around squealing lol

Ah stop, I can feel them squirming now ... have the creeps!!! lol (am serious!!)

hi i have them out side my back door now all i can think is that they be in my bedroom tonight yuck i wont be hoovering them

I fast forward on this one...
 

have you named these guys yet? why not scoop one up and bring the squirm to the Natural History Museum.
someone once brought the 'black widow' in to be id and yeh well you can guess what happened...
palminnie1

leather jackets
 

they look like leather jackets to me, the larve of the daddy long legs.

hi...saw similar before...by any chance are u near a woods or new plantation?

from Kilk
 

Hi Only,

These are indeed called 'leather jackets' or daddy longlegs larvae. they are just brilliant to use for freshwater fishing instead of worms. ive often caught up to 20 perch with just one leather jacket, the fish are not able to pull them off the hook cos of their tough skin.
if you do decide to make a killing on them for the anglers don't keep them in the fridge cos they go all hard an brittle and some might even die! no they need somewhere warm and damp like your bathroom. also if you do handle them don't squeeze too hard or they'l pop and then it gets messy.

glad to be of help

regards
kilk

im shivering looking at them