Although the adult daddy-long-legs, or crane fly, is harmless in the garden, most gardeners destroy as many of the insects as they can to keep down the young flies. In the grub stage they are known as leather-jackets. They are then terribly destructive to grass.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 380, 23 March 1932, Page 1
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