No.
Check this: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_long-legs_spider
http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
2006-09-21 08:41:22
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answered by trinnie 2
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i've got heard a similar component, even though evidently untrue: "Daddy-longlegs (Opiliones) - those arachnids make their residing by eating decomposing vegetative and animal depend despite if are opportunist predators in the event that they could escape with it. they don't have venom glands, fangs or the different mechanism for chemically subduing their foodstuff. hence, they don't have poison and, by the powers of effective judgment, can not be poisonous from venom. some have protective secretions which would be poisonous to small animals if ingested. So, for those daddy-long-legs, the story is obviously fake. Daddy-longlegs spiders (Pholcidae) - right here, the myth is erroneous a minimum of in making claims that have not any foundation in ordinary data. there is not any connection with any pholcid spider biting a human and inflicting any unfavourable reaction. If those spiders have been certainly deadly poisonous yet could no longer bite human beings, then the only way we would be attentive to that they are poisonous is thru milking them and injecting the venom into human beings. For a kind of motives including Amnesty international and a humanitarian code of ethics, this analyze has in no way been executed. besides, there are not any toxicological analyze finding out the lethality of pholcid venom on any mammalian equipment (it extremely is generally executed with mice). hence, no suggestions is obtainable on the probably poisonous outcomes of their venom in human beings, so the component to the myth approximately their being exceptionally poisonous is purely that: a delusion. there is not any scientific foundation for the supposition that they are deadly poisonous and there is not any reason to assume that it extremely is authentic. What approximately their fangs being too short to penetrate human pores and skin? Pholcids do certainly have short fangs, which in arachnological words is named "uncate" simply by fact they have a secondary enamel which meets the fang like the way the two grabbing factors of a pair of tongs come at the same time. Brown recluse spiders further have uncate fang shape and that they for sure are waiting to bite human beings. there may be a distinction interior the musculature that properties the fang such that recluses have extra ideal muscle groups for penetration simply by fact they are searching spiders wanting to subdue prey while pholcid spiders are waiting to wrap their prey and don't prefer as good a musculature. So, back, the myth states as fact something approximately which there is not any scientific foundation."
2016-10-17 09:56:22
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answered by Anonymous
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That's just an urban legend. No one has ever been bitten by a Grandaddy Long Legs, because their mouths are too small. Again, no scientific evidence.
2006-09-21 08:42:29
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answered by firebyknight 4
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Daddy Long Legs are the most friendly spiders you can imagine....they make great pets. They are not dangerous, they don't have the ability to bite you. They are the sweetest pets you can have.
2006-09-21 08:42:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Nope. Urban legend.
2006-09-21 08:40:45
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answered by Writer of Truth 4
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Nope, 100% bogus.
2006-09-21 08:42:50
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answered by kingoftheintertron 3
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For sure. It is the most poisonous spider in the world. Its fangs are too big to penetrate the human skin. I know it doesn't make much sense, but that is what I read.
2006-09-21 08:42:47
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answered by Russianator 5
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it is true that they are very poisonous, in fact they have the most powerful neural toxin among north american spiders. but the reason why they are unable to bite is because their teeth aren't big enough to bite
2006-09-21 08:45:33
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answered by liestat 1
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No, I watched an episode of Mythbusters, and they debunked that one.
2006-09-21 08:41:04
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answered by rita_alabama 6
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No one knows.
http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
2006-09-21 08:42:09
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answered by cobyja 2
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