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I would like to assure James Vickers (Letters, 6 September) that the daddy longlegs population is thriving here on the Isle of Wight. So far this week, my dog has chased and eaten five of them.
Helen Keats
Shorwell, Isle of Wight
• There may be a dearth of daddy longlegs in Yorkshire, but there is a plague of them in our house and garden in Dumfriesshire.
Elizabeth Carruthers
Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire
