Tipules

[pachapapa]

There seem to be a lot of tipules around this year, so a bit concerned about possibility of damage to grass next winter.

Perhaps just over anxious.

[Pierre ZFP]

Well I for one had to Goole what a 'Tipule' was.  So it's a Daddy Longlegs or Cranefly.

I think in themselves they are not too bad (apart from being a nuisance flying about) but its the larvae (leatherjackets) which damage plants by feeding on their roots.

Best get some chickens - they love 'em

[Gardener]

I can't remember them being this early, though they are smaller than normal.

[pachapapa]

Merles as well!

[Loiseau]

I usually get them in the autumn - but over in 85 we call them "cousins".

Angela

[woolybanana]

Yourn tipule is something else then, Angela?

[pachapapa]

[quote user="woolybanana"]Yourn tipule is something else then, Angela?[/quote]

Angela is correct on "vers gris" the eggs are laid in aout sept in lawns; the vers spend the winter eating the roots.

[Loiseau]

One and the same I think, Wools.

That indispensable organ Wikipedia says, on tipules:

"Il est fréquent d'en voir à la fin du printemps ou pendant l'été au Canada et en France. On voit la tipule au début de l'automne lorsqu'elle cherche à entrer dans les habitations pour se protéger des premiers frimas.

En France et en Belgique, on l'appelle aussi cousin..."

Angela

[ericd]

[quote user="Loiseau"] but over in 85 we call them "cousins". Angela[/quote]

 

I must admit never ever having heard themmentioned as "tipules"....always "Cousins" and rightly or wrongly know them as being the male part of the mosquitoe that nourishes itself on nectar....

[sueyh]

I can remember my mum calling the larve "Leather Jackets"

[ericd]

[quote user="sueyh"]I can remember my mum calling the larve "Leather Jackets"
[/quote]

In English may be but the OP was on about a French name for that flying animal...can't remember how they are called in German though...[;-)][8-)]