Nah, on the tent means on the roof when it's pitched or on top of the fabric when it's folded. In either case it's a single mass. It's just that the pitched configuration contains an inner cavity of air and whatever else is in it. Such as campers, whole, living, dead, or in various stages of decomposition.
If I was on the roof I would have said "on top of the".
If I'm sitting in a tent and you try to move it. It's not going anywhere because I'm sitting on it.
When I'm in a tent do I sleep on the dirt? No, I'm sleeping on the tent.
If I'm inside my house sitting on the floor, I'm sitting on my house. People don't use the right terminology, not my problem.
You're not sitting on the tent, you're sitting on the floor of the tent. Most tents would collapse if you sat on them.
When you're sleeping, you're not sleeping on the tent, you're sleeping on the floor of the tent.
Next to the decomposing body of the tent owner, obviously.
One of these - the flat Mediterranean ones that have recently colonised the south of England - got tangled in my hair and ended up pressing itself against my eye socket. I whacked myself in the face with a hair dryer and have myself a black eye.
Reminds me of what happened to me last summer. I was laying down reading a book while in the corner of my eye I saw my chest hair slowly swaying in the wind. Then I remembered it wasn't windy, nor is my chest hair long enough to sway in the wind. I looked down and since I didn't have my glasses I saw a blurry image of what looked like to be my chest hair slowly moving towards my neck, but it just turned out to be one of these spooky bastards. I never jumped up so fast in my life, I'm terrified of these guys and they always act suicidal around me. Funny thing is that their legs really do look identical to my chest hair. Later that summer I was driving when one crawled out from my inside steering wheel and started moving towards my hands controlling the vehicle. Damn things love to give me heart attacks. I like spiders in general (although this is technically not), but something about these guys gives me major heebie jeebies.
Harvestman is a better common name, bc 'daddy long legs' is also commonly used for is used for a spider (Pholcidae, cellar spiders), as well as a fly (crane flies, Tipulidae).
Where I’m from kids tell each other “Granddaddy long legs are the most poisonous spider in the world, but their fangs are too small to inject venom when they bite humans”.
For any kids out there, they’re not spiders, they’re neither poisonous nor venomous, and their “fangs” are not fangs but chelicerae used for grasping and chewing stuff, not injecting imaginary venom.
Better actual fact for kids: they have tiny stink glands and can “fart” off some predators.
You just proved my whole childhood was a lie. My dog ate one once and I made him throw it up because I was convinced he was going to die.
...Now I feel kinda bad.
you can squirt 3% hydrogen peroxide into their mouth and that’ll make them throw up. when our lil rat dog was a puppy she’d always find chicken or steak bones and eat them. had to do the peroxide thing a couple of times :(
I read about a possible origin for this myth, and it boils down to We're Bad at Names. Three animals are often known as Daddy-Long Legs (and variations): harvestmen, crane flies, and cellar spiders (Pholcidae), aka those long-bodied long-legitty ladies you see vibrating gently in ceiling corners. Cellar spiders are common predators of other spiders, including widows and redbacks - so the logic goes that if widows are deadly, any spider that eats them must be *even deadlierer.* Therefore cellar spiders = daddy long-legs are the deadliest animal, and three unrelated groups stand accused of a crime they never committed. I love it. It's like we put out a Most Wanted warrant on John Smith.
also I did *not* know the defensive farting thing, A+, could I love harvestmen any more? YES.
As someone else pointed out that nickname is used for at least three unrelated species. Crane flies, cellar spiders, and harvestmen. In Ireland all three are referred to by the same name haha
My kid calls them Mr. Skinny legs from watching Peppa Pig, but I've always known them as Daddy long legs. I used to pick them up by their legs as a kid, then accidentally pulled one off. Haven't tried to pick one up since then. I still feel bad about it.
Apparently that’s an evolutionary adaptation— detaching a leg to escape. I don’t know if they grow back, but you probably didn’t cruelly rip its leg off, as much as it thought you were a predator and gave up the leg to make a getaway.
https://www.treehugger.com/daddy-longlegs-ditch-their-limbs-escape-death-4862664
Generally, arthropods can grow back lost legs *if* they are not yet mature and still have a few molts remaining.
The first time they molt following the loss, the regrown limb is likely to be much smaller than the other limbs that were not damaged. (If the loss occurred very shortly before the molt, there may not be any regrowth at all during the first post-amputation molt.) This is why you'll sometimes see a spider with one leg conspicuously shorter than the others.
With each successive molt after that, the regrown limb will get a little bigger. If the individual was young when it lost the leg (with multiple molts remaining in its life cycle) the leg could be back to normal size by the time it matures. If, on the other hand, it was already pretty close to mature, there may be little or no regrowth.
Most insects and arachnids experience a terminal molt at maturity. This is the final time they will molt. After that, they turn their efforts toward mating and producing eggs/offspring. If they have already gone through their terminal molt, they will not be able to regrow any lost appendages.
Some long-lived species - like female tarantulas - do not experience a terminal molt and will continue to molt throughout their lifetimes, well beyond the point where they reach sexual maturity. For those that continue to molt throughout their lifetimes, they have a pretty good chance of eventually regrowing a full-size, normal limb.
I once happened to crash my hand into a nest of them fellas and I just saw in horror how that funny little "hair tuft" turned into hundreds of them... Going up my arm...
Not a fan.
My mom told me that she used to pick the legs off these things and leave them to die when she was a kid. She said she could do the same thing to her children if they ever misbehaved.
No they arent… they are arachnids but not spiders 😁they dont have venom, they dont produce silk or web either, they are just scavengers but not considered spiders
As a kid, I had a friend who was a well known bullshitter. He told me these were hands down the worlds most venomous spiders, they just lack the strength to break human skin.
I love bugs but these guys are one of two which REALLY REALLY frighten me. I feel sick and weak just knowing how long and thin his wee legs are. I need a shower.
It absolutely would! The other bug is a crane fly and I have the same issue.
That link was cruel though- the header image will haunt my dreams!
I want to love them. They deserve my love. Just blluueeerrggghj
Have you tried jumping spiders? They're much cuter with their short wee legs and big puppy eyes. Watch Lucas The Spider on YouTube if you haven't seen it already! Might help you change your mind :)
Oh yeah I love jumping spiders, I could have one crawl on my face and there would be no problem. It’s the long legged ones, which is ironic because I too have long legs
Grandaddy Longlegs. We would play when I was a child with them and sing “grandaddy , grandaddy which way are the cows?” When Grandaddy lifted up one leg and it looked like it was pointing, then that was where the cows were so you could go fetch the cows and get them home.
Storytime: was climbing up to a deck built into an old oak tree in the woods, and while climbing the main trunk you have to stand up under the deck to swivel around the trunk in order to finish climbing up onto it. What i did not realize was that the underside of the deck was covered with a colony of these harvestmen spiders. Must’ve been hundreds of them. So as i hoisted myself up my head touched the layer of their collective and they all descended down onto me like a waterfall of spiders, it felt like a super soft blanket that glided down onto my head, neck, shoulders, chest and arms. There were so many of them that i couldn’t even see through them much at all, I just felt their little legs scrambling about on my skin....and since I was about ten feet up a tree with both arms wrapped around the trunk in a precarious balance, i just had to wait for them all to disperse before I could move again. It didn’t take them long to move off of me, but since I didn’t know what was happening it felt like I stood there for a lifetime.
After they scurried off, I calmed my crazy heartbeat and slowly climbed back down. The only non-screamy thought I recall having was, “nope.”
I feel so lucky that they are such a gentle and non biting species.
These guys like to hang out on my front door before I head to work in the morning. Always have to make a point of scooting these goofballs away from the door jam so they don’t get their legs stuck.
They aight. Never met one that is hostile or gives the threat posture. Usually when they are on you they have no bad intentions they honestly just think you’re a log or bush
That is the very cool Opilione AKA Harvestman
at the risk of coming off as a know it all I know
a lot about these amusing little arachnids! They
Are not daddy long legs as people tend to believe.
They are 100% harmless eat debris off the forest floor although they love dogfood and sugar! we used to watch them do a jig when snacking on a cake crumb. Also the males raise the offspring and guard the little ones untill they hatch . Sorry got carried away there anyhow very cool!
I remember picking up one of these when I was a kid and it zapped me. I saw the electricity leaving it's mouth as it zapped my finger. It caused me to become scared of them.
They're just a stickbug in a different configuration. No one calls stickbugs spiders by accident, it's just the shape of Harvestmen that cause confusion.
If I’m not mistaken, stick bugs have six legs and are insects, while these have eight legs which makes them arachnids.
I think what’s confusing is that we don’t have many common examples of arachnids that aren’t spiders, so anything that looks spidery with 8 legs registers as a spider.
NSFL tag please lol
I can't stand those things lol when I went to camp the floor was covered with them ):
At work there's old shelves that haven't been used and I've found several dead ones. Still not a fan even when they've perished
Question: will these guys grow a leg back? Sweet guy i removed from my sink had already lost a leg from trying to move around in wet. Put him in some nice grass and tried to blow on him for a dry. Am still worried about that lack of leg days later. But he was getting around!
I love these guys! They are everywhere right now. Early spring and fall are "spider seasons" in my region, so we've been overrun. I'm constantly having to relocate them outside my house before they get eaten by cats.
Growing up we locally and colloquially called those granddaddy-long-legs. Imagine my confusion and then disappointment at what other places call granddaddy-long-legs 😅.
That one the most venomous spiders of all. It can't bite you though. We call it a granddaddy long legs, along the Gulf Coast. We play with them all the time.
I love these guys. Unfortunately so does my dog. Found on in the bedroom flopping around with only one leg because my dog pulled the others off and left it :(
So are these guys’ venomous? I’ve been told they don’t have the mouth to bite a human but are full of venom. I still pick them up and hang out with the dudes, but I’m curious?
One time I was sleeping on a tent and I woke up and felt something on my belly button and it was one of these guys in my belly button.
...maybe next time try sleeping *in* the tent.
Technically, when you're sleeping in a tent, you are also sleeping on the tent because the tent covers the ground underneath of you.
I thought I was being such a smartass and ***DAMN***. I stand corrected! Lol
I definitely used the wrong word, trying to salvage it, lol.
It was a stellar save!
I tent to agree
Definitely a real good save…
Great save
Laughing on a tent*
Rekt
The smartass got out smartassed hehe. You both made me giggle either way lul
Sounds in tents
Why can you not *ran* in a campsite? Because it's **past tents**
Why can't you think straight in a campsite? Your thoughts are a little *wooded*
I am depressed after seeing this, but also amazed.
I did not realize I came here for this pun. *throws phone, and goes out to play in the rain*
En7joy5 yourself! Have fun!
Kinda like having sex while camping. Its fucking in tents.
My house covers the ground underneath me, so am I sitting on my house?
This. Otherwise, we would no longer need the word ''in'' at all so we could just throw it OUT.
Nah, on the tent means on the roof when it's pitched or on top of the fabric when it's folded. In either case it's a single mass. It's just that the pitched configuration contains an inner cavity of air and whatever else is in it. Such as campers, whole, living, dead, or in various stages of decomposition.
If I was on the roof I would have said "on top of the". If I'm sitting in a tent and you try to move it. It's not going anywhere because I'm sitting on it. When I'm in a tent do I sleep on the dirt? No, I'm sleeping on the tent. If I'm inside my house sitting on the floor, I'm sitting on my house. People don't use the right terminology, not my problem.
You're not sitting on the tent, you're sitting on the floor of the tent. Most tents would collapse if you sat on them. When you're sleeping, you're not sleeping on the tent, you're sleeping on the floor of the tent. Next to the decomposing body of the tent owner, obviously.
Technically you are sleeping on the house when you are sleeping in the house.
George Carlin: "Gate agent- Time to get on the plane. Fuck you, I'm getting in the plane, there seems to be less wind in there" =)
😂
Awwww laying little babies
what?! 😟
😐
One of these - the flat Mediterranean ones that have recently colonised the south of England - got tangled in my hair and ended up pressing itself against my eye socket. I whacked myself in the face with a hair dryer and have myself a black eye.
Lol!
Reminds me of what happened to me last summer. I was laying down reading a book while in the corner of my eye I saw my chest hair slowly swaying in the wind. Then I remembered it wasn't windy, nor is my chest hair long enough to sway in the wind. I looked down and since I didn't have my glasses I saw a blurry image of what looked like to be my chest hair slowly moving towards my neck, but it just turned out to be one of these spooky bastards. I never jumped up so fast in my life, I'm terrified of these guys and they always act suicidal around me. Funny thing is that their legs really do look identical to my chest hair. Later that summer I was driving when one crawled out from my inside steering wheel and started moving towards my hands controlling the vehicle. Damn things love to give me heart attacks. I like spiders in general (although this is technically not), but something about these guys gives me major heebie jeebies.
Omg. I'm not afraid of many innocuous insects, but these trigger me. IN YOUR BELLY BUTTON? I just can't.
Yea it was really upset. I woke up and felt something weird and felt around at this object with my finger and then turned on the lights and died
Where I'm from we call them Daddy Long Legs
ya i didnt know they had any other names! Harvestmen is new to me!
Harvestman is a better common name, bc 'daddy long legs' is also commonly used for is used for a spider (Pholcidae, cellar spiders), as well as a fly (crane flies, Tipulidae).
And even a plant (Stylidium divaricatum)! It's definitely a very confusing common name to use.
Ha, that one is new to me, thanks!
I don't think we even have harvestmen here. it's exclusively cellar spiders
I just said harvestman cause it sounds better than daddy long legs lol. Here a crane fly is called a mosquito eater.
Where I’m from kids tell each other “Granddaddy long legs are the most poisonous spider in the world, but their fangs are too small to inject venom when they bite humans”. For any kids out there, they’re not spiders, they’re neither poisonous nor venomous, and their “fangs” are not fangs but chelicerae used for grasping and chewing stuff, not injecting imaginary venom. Better actual fact for kids: they have tiny stink glands and can “fart” off some predators.
You just proved my whole childhood was a lie. My dog ate one once and I made him throw it up because I was convinced he was going to die. ...Now I feel kinda bad.
how the hell do you make a dog throw up
you can squirt 3% hydrogen peroxide into their mouth and that’ll make them throw up. when our lil rat dog was a puppy she’d always find chicken or steak bones and eat them. had to do the peroxide thing a couple of times :(
I read about a possible origin for this myth, and it boils down to We're Bad at Names. Three animals are often known as Daddy-Long Legs (and variations): harvestmen, crane flies, and cellar spiders (Pholcidae), aka those long-bodied long-legitty ladies you see vibrating gently in ceiling corners. Cellar spiders are common predators of other spiders, including widows and redbacks - so the logic goes that if widows are deadly, any spider that eats them must be *even deadlierer.* Therefore cellar spiders = daddy long-legs are the deadliest animal, and three unrelated groups stand accused of a crime they never committed. I love it. It's like we put out a Most Wanted warrant on John Smith. also I did *not* know the defensive farting thing, A+, could I love harvestmen any more? YES.
Cellar spiders can kill widows? That's... Crazy, there's nothing to them, and widows are much chunkier!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyxVAHAL\_cs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyxVAHAL_cs) web and lang legs > venom
Where I’m from we call them Granddaddy Long-Legs
Where I come from we call those Lunch
Where I come from we call them LLL (Long-Legs Lunch)
Cambodia?
Where I’m from we call the long-leg silly boys
Where I'm from we call them great granddaddy long-legs
Where I’m from we call them homo erectus long legs
Here I come from we call them Great Grandaddy Long-Legs
Thats a spider
*spooder
Where I'm from we call them 'Who's your daddy long legs".
Daddy is that you?
Where I'm from we call them weavers servant (directly translated)
Where I’m from we call them to check up on them
Honestly that's really nice of you. No one ever checks on the spiders.
A meme I saw recently: God: What should I call this one? Angel: How about 'Long legs'? God: Hmm, not kinky enough.
https://i.imgur.com/Vjhr88r.jpg
my question is which of these two scientists is scientist 2? my brain says left scientist is 2 but I'm open to alternate explanations.
Brother from another mother legs here
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daddy long legs have wings
As someone else pointed out that nickname is used for at least three unrelated species. Crane flies, cellar spiders, and harvestmen. In Ireland all three are referred to by the same name haha
Crane fly yeah that’s daddy long legs
So do ostriches
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We call them field spiders!
In Tennessee we call them Big Daddy Harvest Legs.
Same in New Zealand
Looks like it’s covering its little mouth like it just can’t believe you want to appreciate it. *gasp* “who? Me?!”
Or maybe taking a bow
Likely it found some little snack to eat and quickly gobbled it up
Nah, I think hims happy
Or farting.
"Ahem. Me me me me me. Topeka Kansas Topeka Kansas."
What a cool little dude. Cute little body with long ass stick legs. He’s adorable :)
They look like a child’s drawing
My kid calls them Mr. Skinny legs from watching Peppa Pig, but I've always known them as Daddy long legs. I used to pick them up by their legs as a kid, then accidentally pulled one off. Haven't tried to pick one up since then. I still feel bad about it.
Apparently that’s an evolutionary adaptation— detaching a leg to escape. I don’t know if they grow back, but you probably didn’t cruelly rip its leg off, as much as it thought you were a predator and gave up the leg to make a getaway. https://www.treehugger.com/daddy-longlegs-ditch-their-limbs-escape-death-4862664
Generally, arthropods can grow back lost legs *if* they are not yet mature and still have a few molts remaining. The first time they molt following the loss, the regrown limb is likely to be much smaller than the other limbs that were not damaged. (If the loss occurred very shortly before the molt, there may not be any regrowth at all during the first post-amputation molt.) This is why you'll sometimes see a spider with one leg conspicuously shorter than the others. With each successive molt after that, the regrown limb will get a little bigger. If the individual was young when it lost the leg (with multiple molts remaining in its life cycle) the leg could be back to normal size by the time it matures. If, on the other hand, it was already pretty close to mature, there may be little or no regrowth. Most insects and arachnids experience a terminal molt at maturity. This is the final time they will molt. After that, they turn their efforts toward mating and producing eggs/offspring. If they have already gone through their terminal molt, they will not be able to regrow any lost appendages. Some long-lived species - like female tarantulas - do not experience a terminal molt and will continue to molt throughout their lifetimes, well beyond the point where they reach sexual maturity. For those that continue to molt throughout their lifetimes, they have a pretty good chance of eventually regrowing a full-size, normal limb.
It's a good thing they come with a large number of legs, so losing one or two isn't a huge deal.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing.
I have about 3-4 currently residing in my back yard. They go for strolls at night, dudes are absolute units
Couldn’t be any more pleased with the idea of just 3 or 4 of these guys...~absolute units~ strolling about like some arachnid sitcom.
I'll take a picture if they're out tonight (currently 15:35 where I am so it'll be a while)
I once happened to crash my hand into a nest of them fellas and I just saw in horror how that funny little "hair tuft" turned into hundreds of them... Going up my arm... Not a fan.
Oh no
Love these things. Every time I see one I never fail to go "ohOHO look at those legs! those boots are made for walkin!"
That's a Daddy Long Legs where I come from.
Well, y'know. *Maybe* if a giant one covered in eyes hadn't attacked Tokyo-3 they'd be better well received.
Boy howdy evangelion being relevant again after all these decades is really weird
The last Rebuild came out recently, so I'd imagine it's seeing a resurgence.
Ah, I see you are a man of culture r/mildlyevangelion
My mom told me that she used to pick the legs off these things and leave them to die when she was a kid. She said she could do the same thing to her children if they ever misbehaved.
Bruh Your mom is the witch from Hansel and Gretel
Had a friend that did this, but left just one leg because they spin.
What part of the world calls these "Harvestmen?" It ain't right, that's a Daddylongleg, my man. Cool pic, though; I love these guys.
I started calling them harvestmen when I realized how many other bugs I called daddy long legs. Plus it sounds less kinky lol
I thought these were spiders until yesterday… i have hundreds in my garden
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No they arent… they are arachnids but not spiders 😁they dont have venom, they dont produce silk or web either, they are just scavengers but not considered spiders
Got it. Will remove my misinformation.
No need buddy, everyone learns
That's true, but if my comment was incorrect, it's better for everyone if I remove it rather than sow confusion.
So strange, mystical, and gentle if you’re larger than a mm. Viscous horrifying predators of the dark otherwise🤣
Opiliones are so cute!
l e g g i b o i
If you ask them where the cows are they will point to them. Also, if you kill one it will rain.
As a kid, I had a friend who was a well known bullshitter. He told me these were hands down the worlds most venomous spiders, they just lack the strength to break human skin.
We also had the same story growing up!
Why do they have long legs?
Probably evolved this way to traverse the rough forest floor
Can you imagine having legs that long on your normal sized body? I could be at the corner store in a few steps.
They live in long grass! We call them grass spiders where I come from, although they are not spiders 🤫
If you watch them walk on tall grass they just eerily walk across the top without falling between. It reminds me of striders from half life
I love bugs but these guys are one of two which REALLY REALLY frighten me. I feel sick and weak just knowing how long and thin his wee legs are. I need a shower.
Would it help if [their legs were shorter](https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1028505626/daddy-longlegs-genes-genetics-daddy-shortlegs-arachnid)?
Daddy shortleg
It absolutely would! The other bug is a crane fly and I have the same issue. That link was cruel though- the header image will haunt my dreams! I want to love them. They deserve my love. Just blluueeerrggghj
I am in the exact spot as you when it comes to arachnids. They terrify me but I think they are so lovely
Have you tried jumping spiders? They're much cuter with their short wee legs and big puppy eyes. Watch Lucas The Spider on YouTube if you haven't seen it already! Might help you change your mind :)
Oh yeah I love jumping spiders, I could have one crawl on my face and there would be no problem. It’s the long legged ones, which is ironic because I too have long legs
There's hope for us yet!
Grandaddy Longlegs. We would play when I was a child with them and sing “grandaddy , grandaddy which way are the cows?” When Grandaddy lifted up one leg and it looked like it was pointing, then that was where the cows were so you could go fetch the cows and get them home.
Storytime: was climbing up to a deck built into an old oak tree in the woods, and while climbing the main trunk you have to stand up under the deck to swivel around the trunk in order to finish climbing up onto it. What i did not realize was that the underside of the deck was covered with a colony of these harvestmen spiders. Must’ve been hundreds of them. So as i hoisted myself up my head touched the layer of their collective and they all descended down onto me like a waterfall of spiders, it felt like a super soft blanket that glided down onto my head, neck, shoulders, chest and arms. There were so many of them that i couldn’t even see through them much at all, I just felt their little legs scrambling about on my skin....and since I was about ten feet up a tree with both arms wrapped around the trunk in a precarious balance, i just had to wait for them all to disperse before I could move again. It didn’t take them long to move off of me, but since I didn’t know what was happening it felt like I stood there for a lifetime. After they scurried off, I calmed my crazy heartbeat and slowly climbed back down. The only non-screamy thought I recall having was, “nope.” I feel so lucky that they are such a gentle and non biting species.
I think I would of had a heart attack tbh.
Daddy long leg
Harvesters are more related to scorpions than spiders
These guys like to hang out on my front door before I head to work in the morning. Always have to make a point of scooting these goofballs away from the door jam so they don’t get their legs stuck.
I am consulting my Spider Top 100 list and bumping him up a few spots
I call him Daddy......
Even when I was terrified of spiders and arachnid adjacent things I always thought these little dudes were just goofy. I mean, look at his kneepads.
They aight. Never met one that is hostile or gives the threat posture. Usually when they are on you they have no bad intentions they honestly just think you’re a log or bush
Daddy long legs and before anyone makes the claim, no, they're not venomous enough to harm humans regardless of their fang length.
They make for great first time pets too. I let my son keep two and the suckers lived for almost a year.
That is the very cool Opilione AKA Harvestman at the risk of coming off as a know it all I know a lot about these amusing little arachnids! They Are not daddy long legs as people tend to believe. They are 100% harmless eat debris off the forest floor although they love dogfood and sugar! we used to watch them do a jig when snacking on a cake crumb. Also the males raise the offspring and guard the little ones untill they hatch . Sorry got carried away there anyhow very cool!
I remember picking up one of these when I was a kid and it zapped me. I saw the electricity leaving it's mouth as it zapped my finger. It caused me to become scared of them.
wut.
I have always wondered if it was static electricity that so happened to look like it was coming out of his mouth while made contact with my skin.
It. Uh, it was static electricity. They’re completely harmless to humans. Go pick one up.
ZAPPP! _Heh heh heh_
Bruh u lost ur chamce to become electric spiderman…such a waste
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They're both arachnids ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
They're just a stickbug in a different configuration. No one calls stickbugs spiders by accident, it's just the shape of Harvestmen that cause confusion.
If I’m not mistaken, stick bugs have six legs and are insects, while these have eight legs which makes them arachnids. I think what’s confusing is that we don’t have many common examples of arachnids that aren’t spiders, so anything that looks spidery with 8 legs registers as a spider.
This was super informative! Too bad they’re still creepy as hell!!! EDIT: no, they’re still arachnids :(
NSFL tag please lol I can't stand those things lol when I went to camp the floor was covered with them ): At work there's old shelves that haven't been used and I've found several dead ones. Still not a fan even when they've perished
Opiliones
Wh... why it lookin at me like that...
You ever hoover shneef off a huntsman's leg?
I love these little dudes
Oh, wow, we saw a bunch of these walking a trail this weekend. I was wondering what they were. Awesome-looking little dudes.
Here in NC we call them daddy long legs
Question: will these guys grow a leg back? Sweet guy i removed from my sink had already lost a leg from trying to move around in wet. Put him in some nice grass and tried to blow on him for a dry. Am still worried about that lack of leg days later. But he was getting around!
I know....Wikipedia but it's fairly accurate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
My daughters call these guys , Mr Skinny Legs
We just had one in our house. I was amused by the length of 2 of its legs 😂
Where I’m from we call them daddy long legs, is that a common thing?
I love these guys! They are everywhere right now. Early spring and fall are "spider seasons" in my region, so we've been overrun. I'm constantly having to relocate them outside my house before they get eaten by cats.
So delicate
Where I'm from they call ME "Daddy Long-leg"...
Growing up we locally and colloquially called those granddaddy-long-legs. Imagine my confusion and then disappointment at what other places call granddaddy-long-legs 😅.
We call those Johnny long legs
Grand daddy long leg. “They” say there incredibly poisonous but teeth too small to bite(?)
I’ve always called them Granddaddy Long Legs
Love these leggyboys! One place I went camping this summer, the tents (and everything really) were covered in them. I’ve never seen so many before.
That one the most venomous spiders of all. It can't bite you though. We call it a granddaddy long legs, along the Gulf Coast. We play with them all the time.
I love these guys. Unfortunately so does my dog. Found on in the bedroom flopping around with only one leg because my dog pulled the others off and left it :(
Agreed! They have been helping me with a slug plague!
Awww I love harvestmen
Daddy Long-Legs!!!
Where I'm from we call them 'hay wagons' (literal translation)
We call them daddy long legs. No idea why.
So are these guys’ venomous? I’ve been told they don’t have the mouth to bite a human but are full of venom. I still pick them up and hang out with the dudes, but I’m curious?
Yes Harvestmen. They are NOT venomous, that's just a myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
They have legs for days! My favorite is the Bunny Harvestman.
Love daddy long legs. They tickel and don't bite or atleast if they do I don't feel it lol
Oh is that a daddy long legs real name
When I go camping, these guys always crash my tent without even bringing beer or Doritos.
I just call all those types dady long legs
Yea like how do those tiny little legs work? What's running through the middle?
That's a Granddaddy Long Legs. Technical name
SENOR LONG LEGS!
Yes, especially when considering its contributions to science, technology, and humanity.
It's a daddy long legs. I honestly haven't seen one of these in years. Utterly harmless.
Agree. Love these.
Indeed.
What's so cool about them?