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![]() George Booth wrote: "Les Crossan" wrote in message .uk... 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 We called them 'pillbugs' as they could roll up into armour plated balls..... les -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk |
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In uk.sci.weather on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 at 16:29:15, lawrence Jenkins
wrote : On things with lots of legs has anybody else noticed the great daddy - long - legs invasion this year?? Loads round here too. Only the flying variety Les but I think their called the Crane fly. Who calls them anything else but daddy-long-legs though? ![]() -- Paul Hyett, Cheltenham |
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![]() 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 We called them 'pillbugs' as they could roll up into armour plated balls..... les -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk Jockey Pigs in this little bit of Berkshire! Or Oniscus asellus if you want to show off! -- Reply to address is valid on this account. However, it's only checked once a week. |
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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. Adrian -- Adrian Shaw ais@ Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber. Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac. http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais uk |
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On 18 Oct 2005 18:36:21 +0100, (Adrian D. Shaw) wrote:
I always call them crane flies. To me (at least as I was brung up) a daddy longlegs is a harvestman spider. Me too. A daddy longlegs doesn't have wings. -- Alan White Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland. Web cam and weather:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co....her/kabcam.htm Some walks and treks:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks/ |
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