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Everyone -

Sorry guys and gals to be completely off topic...!

What are 'slaters' - are they these little armour plated insects (?)
crustaceans (??) that you get under rotting logs and such like??

Googling for slaters gets me nowhere apart from lots of "roofers" (:

On things with lots of legs has anybody else noticed the great daddy -
long - legs invasion this year??

Les
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MCC wrote:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:16:35 GMT, Les Crossan wrote:


Everyone -

Sorry guys and gals to be completely off topic...!

What are 'slaters' - are they these little armour plated insects (?)
crustaceans (??) that you get under rotting logs and such like??

Googling for slaters gets me nowhere apart from lots of "roofers" (:

On things with lots of legs has anybody else noticed the great daddy -
long - legs invasion this year??

Les



Woodlice


Thanks MCC - appreciated!

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Les Crossan wrote:

On things with lots of legs has anybody else noticed the great daddy -
long - legs invasion this year??


Wasn't there something in the news a couple of weeks ago about a
racecourse that had to abandon a meeting because the ground was
dangerous. Apparently there were so many crane fly (aka daddy long
legs) larvae under just under the surface of the grass that it was
becoming unstable.

Can't say I've seem many this year though, probably all gone on their
holidays - with the wasps.

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I wrote:

Wasn't there something in the news a couple of weeks ago about a
racecourse that had to abandon a meeting because the ground was
dangerous.


100 lines of "Always check Google first" coming up .....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/4220322.stm

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Les Crossan wrote:
Everyone -



On things with lots of legs has anybody else noticed the great daddy -
long - legs invasion this year??

Les
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www.uksevereweather.org.uk


Hi, Les,

Inundated with them this year, must be GW (;0)

swmbo is terrified of them, so I became a hero for a short while!

Best wishes,

Ken Cook

Copley, Barnard Castle, County Durham



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Les Crossan wrote:
Everyone -



On things with lots of legs has anybody else noticed the great daddy -
long - legs invasion this year??

Les
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Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk


Hi, Les,

Inundated with them this year, must be GW (;0)

swmbo is terrified of them, so I became a hero for a short while!

Best wishes,

Ken Cook

Copley, Barnard Castle, County Durham

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If Slaters are woodlice, presumably Slater is a woodlouse.

Now I know a guy called Slater.............

I daren't really give him that nickname, tempting as it is..... :-)

Jack

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"Les Crossan" wrote in
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Everyone -

Sorry guys and gals to be completely off topic...!

What are 'slaters' - are they these little armour plated insects (?)
crustaceans (??) that you get under rotting logs and such like??

Googling for slaters gets me nowhere apart from lots of "roofers" (:

On things with lots of legs has anybody else noticed the great daddy -
long - legs invasion this year??

Les
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Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk


Only the flying variety Les but I think their called the Crane fly. Funnily
enough when I was a kid in the early sixties I remember them being
everywhere.
Steady....... here we go.... is this a sign of a winter like 62/63 No...it's
just that I lived near the docks. Crane fly get it...oh well suit yourselves


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lawrence Jenkins wrote:

Steady....... here we go.... is this a sign of a winter like 62/63 No...it's
just that I lived near the docks. Crane fly get it...oh well suit yourselves


I hope it gave you a lift.


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"Les Crossan" wrote in
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Everyone -

Sorry guys and gals to be completely off topic...!

What are 'slaters' - are they these little armour plated insects (?)
crustaceans (??) that you get under rotting logs and such like??


Well, this takes me back to Co Durham in the 1950's. Just the other side of
the river to you Les, where we called woodlice 'slatey bugs'.

All the best

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