Anyone else been invaded by these fuckers? Just found six trying to pick-lock my front door.
September 18, 2024
Anyone else been invaded by these fuckers? Just found six trying to pick-lock my front door.
by Dave_of_Devon
28 comments
These are the things that do my head in – spiders are confined to the walls, these bastards have the third dimension – they’re just crap at it and crash into everything, including me. And they scare me shitless.
I can barely see across my living room. It’s just a fog of Raid right now.
Long bastards
I’ve seen a lot of these on the white stippled walls on the outside of my house, I don’t know if it’s the colour or texture, the location, the time of year or something else but, they’re everywhere.
Flopsie witches.
My front garden is full of them
Ahh the crane fly, luckily my puppy has a fondness for their taste 😀 he’s ate about 4 this week in the living room so far
And they’re bitin her. They’re really bitin her
There’s one smoking a bifta on my patio right now. I feel like he’s gonna claim squatting rights
I could’ve gone my whole life without watching my cat munch one of these
I hate these things. They’re a combination of my two biggest fears: the fluttery bastardness of butterflies/moths and the creepy arachnid legs of spiders.
Damn bloody apple ipad, the keyboard brought up a spider emoji – I thought it was crawling across my screen.
Now I can’t stop itching. Uuck.
I love Crane flies, shit at flying even worse at swimming, trout love them and I’m going fishing tomorrow
Also, “pick-lock”?
Looking forward to next week when it’ll be cool enough to not need the windows open and so they’ll be invading way less.
They’re pretty cool, I just catch them and put them back outside, they only live for 10-15 days. They are good prey food especially as we get into winter now and food gets more scarce there lava also helps to decompose organic matter in soil so are good for soil health.
Wicked little guys! They have no mouth parts and die in about a month after mating. They lay their eggs in the ground (soil) where the babies will emerge for next year. They serve a great purpose to the ecosystem
My Venus flytrap caught one, the legs were twitching for 2 days.
Fun fact: they can’t unlock doors
Crane fly, clumsy, ugly, all the flight skills of a Ryanair pilot. Ultimately harmless
Ah the time of year when you’d find hundreds of them shagging on the window ledges at school
Harmless
Pick lock? You mean lock pick?
Yeah oh my god loads of them this summer. What are they? They’re like if daddy long legs could fly
One flew into my face today. They are on steroids this year
one tried to carjack me the other day… it flew in as i got in 😩
daddy long legs? I don’t mind spiders but I hate these bad boys! I’d relocate them outside but their legs fall off at the slightest touch..
Little cunts. Every time I see them the hoover comes out straight away and they’re history
Father far feet
Haven’t had them but I did have a moth literally in my mouth when I was sleeping. Stupid bastard nearly choke me but it couldn’t fly coz the wings are fucked.
28 comments
These are the things that do my head in – spiders are confined to the walls, these bastards have the third dimension – they’re just crap at it and crash into everything, including me. And they scare me shitless.
I can barely see across my living room. It’s just a fog of Raid right now.
Long bastards
I’ve seen a lot of these on the white stippled walls on the outside of my house, I don’t know if it’s the colour or texture, the location, the time of year or something else but, they’re everywhere.
Flopsie witches.
My front garden is full of them
Ahh the crane fly, luckily my puppy has a fondness for their taste 😀 he’s ate about 4 this week in the living room so far
And they’re bitin her. They’re really bitin her
There’s one smoking a bifta on my patio right now. I feel like he’s gonna claim squatting rights
I could’ve gone my whole life without watching my cat munch one of these
I hate these things. They’re a combination of my two biggest fears: the fluttery bastardness of butterflies/moths and the creepy arachnid legs of spiders.
Damn bloody apple ipad, the keyboard brought up a spider emoji – I thought it was crawling across my screen.
Now I can’t stop itching. Uuck.
I love Crane flies, shit at flying even worse at swimming, trout love them and I’m going fishing tomorrow
Also, “pick-lock”?
Looking forward to next week when it’ll be cool enough to not need the windows open and so they’ll be invading way less.
They’re pretty cool, I just catch them and put them back outside, they only live for 10-15 days. They are good prey food especially as we get into winter now and food gets more scarce there lava also helps to decompose organic matter in soil so are good for soil health.
Wicked little guys! They have no mouth parts and die in about a month after mating. They lay their eggs in the ground (soil) where the babies will emerge for next year. They serve a great purpose to the ecosystem
My Venus flytrap caught one, the legs were twitching for 2 days.
Fun fact: they can’t unlock doors
Crane fly, clumsy, ugly, all the flight skills of a Ryanair pilot. Ultimately harmless
Ah the time of year when you’d find hundreds of them shagging on the window ledges at school
Harmless
Pick lock? You mean lock pick?
Yeah oh my god loads of them this summer. What are they? They’re like if daddy long legs could fly
One flew into my face today. They are on steroids this year
one tried to carjack me the other day… it flew in as i got in 😩
daddy long legs? I don’t mind spiders but I hate these bad boys! I’d relocate them outside but their legs fall off at the slightest touch..
Little cunts. Every time I see them the hoover comes out straight away and they’re history
Father far feet
Haven’t had them but I did have a moth literally in my mouth when I was sleeping. Stupid bastard nearly choke me but it couldn’t fly coz the wings are fucked.