George Booth wrote:
"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

We called them 'pillbugs' as they could roll up into armour plated
balls.....

les
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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?
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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
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www.uksevereweather.org.uk

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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
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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.

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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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