2006-11-01 01:00:12 · 25 answers · asked by mriee 3 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Dear Dont Know Daddy Long-Legs,
The Daddy long-legs spider, also called the Daddy long-legger, Granddaddy long-legs spider, cellar spider, vibrating spider, or house spider, is a true spider and is not a harvestman. "Daddy longlegs" is a name that is used for several unrelated arthropods with extremely long and thin legs, including these spiders, the harvestmen and tipulid crane flies. The Daddy long-legs spiders comprise the Pholcidae family, in the suborder Araneomorphae.
The spider's fangs are approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness is about 0.10 mm) someone was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well.
Another misconception is that the Daddy long-legs spider is not a true spider. This misconception arises from the multiple uses of the name Daddy long-legs. It is the Harvestman (which is also called Daddy long-legs) which is an arachnid but not a true spider. The Daddy long-legs spider is a true spider.
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2006-11-01 01:24:08 · answer #1 · answered by Phillip B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A true daddy long legs is not actually a spider. It's an insect that looks a lot like a spider. There are a variety of spiders that are sometimes called daddy long legs. I think they are actually what are called 'cellar spiders'. The insect has a one-part body and the spiders a 2 part body. Neither is poisonous.
2006-11-01 09:12:04 · answer #2 · answered by jonahbeast 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Crane flies (= Daddy Long Legs) aren't spiders (8 legged beasties) they are insects (only 6 legs).
They don't have the strongest poison, either; think of black widow and funnel web spiders. :- (
And for many decades I've caught them in bare hands and thrown them back outside without noticing any bites!
So don't panic!!
2006-11-01 09:15:53 · answer #3 · answered by avian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
daddy long legs dont bite and are not poisonous they just walk around eating small bugs and flies, having spiders in a house is a good sign coz it shows your house has no subsidence which means there is no chance of it going anywhere, the most poisonous spiders are the black widow spiders.
2006-11-01 09:14:26 · answer #4 · answered by redhead haylz xx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The daddy long legs spider has small jaws with a very potent poison and mainly eats other spiders! luckily it's fangs are too short to bite humans!!
but it's different from a daddy long legs aka crane fly
Check out http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
2006-11-01 11:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by Jo 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No it doesn't - the black widow and the Brown Recluse spider are the most poisionous - the daddy long legs isn't at all poisionous. A Black Widow's venom is 15 times more poisonous than a rattle snake's.
2006-11-01 09:06:18 · answer #6 · answered by h0axsp1d0r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Daddy long legs are NOT spiders - they are Harvestmen - they have 1 body part - spiders have 2....
they do not have poison
2006-11-01 10:37:53 · answer #7 · answered by CF_ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that once, but apparently they do not have the capability to administer it. Ricky Gervais does an excellent piss take on his DVD "Animals", in which God makes the Dadd-Longlegs and gives him the news he has this highly potent poison. The Dadd-Longlegs gets all cocky with it, and then God takes his teeth away.. Obviously a lot funny when Gervais does it.
To dispell this myth, I once ate a live Daddy-Longlegs in my Nans kitchen. I am not dead, and didn't even feel ill. However, my mate Gav puked in the sink as I did it.
We were very drunk.
2006-11-01 09:10:14 · answer #8 · answered by Shinny 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Daddy Long Legs does have the Strongest poison. Fortunately for us it's fangs cannot penetrate our skin so it is harmless to us.
2006-11-01 09:09:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
(1) they're not spiders, they're flies (proper name Cranefly)
(2) no poison
(3) no bites
(4) biologists aren't even sure if craneflies eat at all, since they only live for a couple of weeks to mate (most of their lives are spent as little caterpillars)
Someone has been talking an awful lot of keech.
2006-11-01 09:06:02 · answer #10 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋