DADDY LONGLEGS. 
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of being autumn-sown, or from kind, or treatment, or circumstances 
of climate, ripened early, and so was hardening before the great burst 
of Aphis-attack appeared, escaped better than what was then still in a 
state in which the suckers of the plant-lice would be driven into the 
ear at the base of the grain. 
The amount of damage caused is stated at various localities 
respectively as—the whole of the Oats and Wheat of the district 
being attacked, and yield likely to be seriously injured; quantities of 
ears of Wheat, Barley, and Oats in another district shrivelled so as 
only to yield small corn, say 5 per cent, loss ; and likewise serious 
damage to portions of fields. In 1879 the damage on a field of 110 
acres near Northwicli, Cheshire, then reported by the occupier, was 
estimated as reducing the crop which should have been four to five good 
quarters to ten to twelve bushels per acre, and of inferior quality. 
Daddy Longlegs. Tipula oleracea, Linn. 
Tjpula oleracea. 
Daddy Longlegs, eggs, grub, and chrysalis. 
The most important communication on the subject of Daddy 
Longlegs grubs during the past season is the following, for which I 
am indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. James Laut and Co., Prince’s 
Quay, Londonderry, Ireland. The great amount of damage brought 
under the notice of the firm by correspondents in communication with 
them relatively to furnishing supply of Oats for export, induced 
Messrs. Laut to draw attention to the desirableness of doing some¬ 
thing towards lessening the ravages of the grubs, and the following 
