2006-09-28 05:08:48 · 10 answers · asked by Captain Toothpick 2 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
The name 'daddy-long-legs spider' is a bit confusing. These spiders look a bit like daddy-long-legs, i.e. the Crane-flyTipula, but these have wings. They also resemble the long-legged harvestmen of the family Phalangiidae(!) (also often called daddy-long-legs) but if you watch these closely you can see that the head, thorax and abdomen is fused. In spiders there is a clear distinction between the head/thorax region and the abdomen. Perhaps a better name that is been used is 'long-legged cellar spider'.
2006-09-28 05:16:02 · answer #1 · answered by sooners83 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. People call both crane flies and those spiders with tiny bodies and long legs daddy long legs hence the confusion. Crane flies have 6 legs and are an insect. The spider version has 8 legs and venom but the mouth is too small to get it into us. Crane flies only live a day or two and the spider ones can live for ages.
2006-09-28 05:11:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, They start life as an grey ugly grub like organism called a leatherjacket which is about 2-3cm long. They survive by munching on the roots of plants, they prefer undisturbed soil so underneath a lawn is a good place to find them. They are a pain if found in a vegetable patch as they can seriously damage crops. They only change into a cranefly when they mature. You can see them emerging from lawns at this time of year. Spiders, on the other hand, emerge from their eggs as fully formed, if extremely tiny, spiders.
2006-09-28 05:31:19 · answer #3 · answered by charlie52 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ignorant person above me is only half right.
daddy long legs are SPIDERS, and they ARE capable of biting us. their fangs average .25 mm, and human skin averages .10mm. they CAN bite us, and they DO bite us, but their poison is not toxic to us. all that garbage about them being "the most poisonous spider" is fake. they even did it on mythbusters.
a cranefly is is actually a flying insect, related to the fly, not the spider, and they are sometimes called "daddy long legs," though they are NOT the same.
2006-09-28 05:22:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At least one convincing site says there are no flying spiders per se, but may spiders travel great distances by "flying" using floating, wind-borne webs. But I don't think there are any spiders that actually have wings.
2006-09-28 05:22:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question has definitely been answered by those before, but I'm merely wondering why a question about arachnids and insects is classified in the "anthropology" section; it's a good question, just not an anthropological one.
2006-09-28 05:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by ಠ__ಠ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because i dont think that crane flys (daddy long legs) have eight legs , spiders have eight legs !
2006-09-28 05:18:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhh!
2006-09-28 05:10:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to my sources (husband works for 'bug firm'): No. Just creepy crawly. NO flying. Thank God. They're creepy enough!
2006-09-28 12:52:29 · answer #9 · answered by curiousgeorgette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know . But did you know that if daddy long legs had teeth they could kill you??
2006-09-29 10:58:37 · answer #10 · answered by hayley50 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋