Tried my hand at some pictures earlier, on the off chance they were good...these 2 came out alright. Nicer to look at, at the proper
res tho
What u think?
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PhoeniX wrote:It's a crane fly not a daddy long legs :E.
I would have hoovered the spider though
Poor thing was outside ffs
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Canis wrote:Daddy long legs are ~2 inches with the legs. The body is ~1/4 inch long.
Haha, I remember one time when I was at my gransparent's camp my brother was hording a bunch of the little things in a jar (they were ALL OVER), then he plucked all their legs off and put their bodies in his hands. Stuffed them in my grandmother's face and said "Look what I got!"
It was a squirming pile of pill-shaped bodies. Then I smacked the bottom of his hand and he spilled them all over the floor. We spent a good 10 minutes picking them all up.
Apparently they're called different things in different places. I've always known the pill-shaped body ones as 'daddy long legs' and have heard that there was another one with the same name that was actually a spider (the pill-shaped one isn't technically a spider). I didn't know those crane fly things were daddy long legs. They're pretty badass looking, nonetheless.
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Dek wrote:Aren't they supposedly one of the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs can't pierce our skin we don't mind them much...
Daddy-longlegs Myth
Have you heard this one?:
DADDY-LONGLEGS ARE ONE OF THE MOST POISONOUS SPIDERS BUT THEIR FANGS ARE TOO SHORT TO BITE HUMANS
This tale has been lurking around for years. I have heard it repeatedly in the United States and even heard a schoolteacher misinforming her class at a museum in Brisbane, Australia. This is incorrect
The crane flies are a family (Tipulidae) of insects resembling giant mosquitoes. Like the mosquito, they are in the order Diptera (flies). They are sometimes called mosquito eaters, mosquito hawks, or skeeter eaters. They are also one of three unrelated arthropods named Daddy long-legs. The other two are the harvestmen and vibrating, cellar or house spider. As such, Crane Flies are wrapped up in the myth of being the most poisonous spider, but unable to bite humans. This is incorrect, and the myth was not intended to refer to Crane Flies, as they are not spiders at all. They do bite humans; in fact, adult crane flies live for only a few days to mate, and do not feed at all (some species' adults may occasionally lap nectar, but always search for human blood).
