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Old October 19th 05, 11:05 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Keith Dancey Keith Dancey is offline
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In article , (Adrian D. Shaw) writes:
Felly sgrifennodd Paul Hyett :


Who calls them anything else but daddy-long-legs though?


I always call them crane flies. To me (at least as I was brung up) a
daddy longlegs is a harvestman spider.



Correct! Crane flies are so obviously male or female that they would
not be called Daddy anything. Daddy-long-legs do not have wings, nor
a larval stage (leatherjackets) the emergence of which was the reason
given for postponing the horse race...



Cheers,

keith



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