Duuuze komary (?)

[princessjobaggy]

Nie wiem jak Wy, ale juz od jakiegos czasu mamy problem z takimi duzymi
owadami, ktore wieczorami pchaja sie do domu drzwiami i oknami. Wygladaja jak
takie naprawde duze komary, ale czy komarami w rzeczywistosci sa, tego nie
wiem. Dzis w nocy wlecial taki jeden do pokoju i brzeczal w ciemnosci,
rozbijajac sie o sciany. Myslalam, ze zwariuje. Oczywiscie skonczylo sie to
wszystko nocnym polowaniem, z czego nie byl zadowolony moj ukochany, ktory
juz smacznie sobie spal.

One chyba nie gryza, ale nie cierpie jak mi cos brzeczy, od razu wszystko
zaczelo mnie swedziec.

Wiecie moze co to za dziadostwo?

[mama5plus]

Daddy longlegs??
Teraz na nie urodzaj.:)

Nie gryza ;)

crane fly
Related: Invertebrates

true fly resembling a mosquito, often called daddy longlegs because of its six
long, delicate legs. (The harvestman , also called daddy longlegs, belongs to
an unrelated order.) Most species of crane flies have a single pair of wings
and slender bodies. They feed upon plant substances and frequent damp places in
pastures and meadows. Crane flies belong to the phylum Arthropoda , class
Insecta, order Diptera, family Tipulidae.

www.encyclopedia.com/html/c1/cranefly.asp
Daddy Long-Legs are Crane Flies and definitely don't drink blood (otherwise
there would be a lot of anaemic people around, judging by the size of them !
www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=255

[jaleo]

To sie dzwiecznie nazywa Daddy Longlegs i nie gryzie.
W tym roku rzeczywiscie jest niesamowity urodzaj na nie.

Daddy-longlegs Myth

[mgna]

DADDY-LONGLEGS ARE ONE OF THE MOST POISONOUS SPIDERS BUT THEIR FANGS ARE TOO
SHORT TO BITE HUMANS
This tale has been lurking around for years. I have heard it repeatedly in the
United States and even heard a schoolteacher misinforming her class at a museum
in Brisbane, Australia. This is incorrect, but to clarify it, several points
need to be explained first.

The animals
Most folks who retell this tale have no idea that they are referring to two
completely separate groups of animals: "daddy-longlegs" and "daddy-longlegs
spiders". In the animal class Arachnida, there are several lower level
divisions called Orders. Scorpions are in the Order Scorpiones, spiders are in
the Order Araneae, ticks and mites are in the Order Acari.

The creatures most correctly called daddy-longlegs are in their own separate
Order which is Opiliones. Common names for this Order are 1) daddy-longlegs, 2)
harvestmen and 3) opilionids. They are characterized by having one basic body
segment which shows segmentation on the posterior portion, at most 2 eyes and
all 8 legs attach to the pill-like body segment. They are usually found under
logs and rocks, prefer moist habitat although they can be found in the desert,
often have long flexible legs (in the temperate Northern hemisphere but there
are also short-legged daddy-longlegs) and they do not produce silk so therefore
they are never found in webs unless they are being eaten by spiders. Because
they are found under logs and other stuff which people most often are not
turning over, most folks don't run into daddy-longlegs very often.

Another creature often called daddy-longlegs are actually spiders. These long-
legged spiders are in the family Pholcidae. Previously the common name of this
family was the cellar spiders but arachnologists have also given them the
moniker of "daddy-longlegs spiders" because of the confusion generated by the
general public. Because these arachnids are spiders, they have 2 body basic
body parts (cephalothorax and abdomen), have 8 eyes most often clumped together
in the front of the body, the abdomen shows no evidence of segmentation, have 8
legs all attached to the front most body part (the cephalothorax) and make webs
out of silk. This is most probably the animal to which people refer when they
tell the tale because these spiders are plentiful especially in cellars (hence
their common name) and are commonly seen by the general public. The most common
pholcid spiders found in U.S. homes are both European immigrants. Pholcus
phalangioides is a uniformly grey spider with rectangular, elongate abdomen and
is found throughout the U.S. Holocnemus pluchei also has a rectangular,
elongate abdomen but has a brown stripe on the ventral side (the belly side -
which is typically directed upwards since the spider hangs upside down in its
web) which covers its sternum and is a stripe on the abdomen. These spiders are
very common along the Pacific Coast. and into the southwest deserts.

Possible envenomation
Is there any truth to this oft-repeated tale?

Daddy-longlegs (Opiliones) - these arachnids make their living by eating
decomposing vegetative and animal matter although are opportunist predators if
they can get away with it. They do not have venom glands, fangs or any other
mechanism for chemically subduing their food. Therefore, they do not have
poison and, by the powers of logic, cannot be poisonous from venom. Some have
defensive secretions that might be poisonous to small animals if ingested. So,
for these daddy-long-legs, the tale is clearly false.

Daddy-longlegs spiders (Pholcidae) - Here, the myth is incorrect at least in
making claims that have no basis in known facts. There is no reference to any
pholcid spider biting a human and causing any detrimental reaction. If these
spiders were indeed deadly poisonous but couldn't bite humans, then the only
way we would know that they are poisonous is by milking them and injecting the
venom into humans. For a variety of reasons including Amnesty International and
a humanitarian code of ethics, this research has never been done. Furthermore,
there are no toxicological studies testing the lethality of pholcid venom on
any mammalian system (this is usually done with mice). Therefore, no
information is available on the likely toxic effects of their venom in humans,
so the part of the myth about their being especially poisonous is just that: a
myth. There is no scientific basis for the supposition that they are deadly
poisonous and there is no reason to assume that it is true.

What about their fangs being too short to penetrate human skin? Pholcids do
indeed have short fangs, which in arachnological terms is called "uncate"
because they have a secondary tooth which meets the fang like the way the two
grabbing parts of a pair of tongs come together. Brown recluse spiders
similarly have uncate fang structure and they obviously are able to bite
humans. There may be a difference in the musculature that houses the fang such
that recluses have stronger muscles for penetration because they are hunting
spiders needing to subdue prey whereas pholcid spiders are able to wrap their
prey and don't need as strong a musculature. So, again, the myth states as fact
something about which there is no scientific basis.

In summary
For true daddy-long-legs, the opilionids, the myth is certainly false, and for
the daddy-long-legs spiders it is certainly not based on known facts.

[jagienkaa]

dokładnie:) w tym roku jest urodzaj, nawet mówili o tym w Radio 1:)

[ewakot]

One zyja tylko 12 - 24 godzin. W ogole nic nie jedza. I wysyp jest "tylko"
przez 4 tygodnie, wiec zaraz sie skonczy! :)