does a daddy long legs have most poisonous venom in the world only cannot use it as it has no teeth?

Answer 1

Have you been watching Ricky Gervais's Animals...hilariously funny. If you have not seen it then I suggest you do as he talks about this very subject

Answer 2

Hi there...simple answer, no. There are two species of the daddy long leg spiders. One is venomous, but is unable to bite into human flesh and the other is non-venomous.

Excerpt from: http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html

Daddy-longlegs (Opiliones) - these arachnids make their living by eating decomposing vegetative and animal matter although are opportunist predators if they can get away with it. They do not have venom glands, fangs or any other mechanism for chemically subduing their food. Therefore, they do not have poison and, by the powers of logic, cannot be poisonous from venom. Some have defensive secretions that might be poisonous to small animals if ingested. So, for these daddy-long-legs, the tale is clearly false.

Daddy-longlegs spiders (Pholcidae) - Here, the myth is incorrect at least in making claims that have no basis in known facts. There is no reference to any pholcid spider biting a human and causing any detrimental reaction. If these spiders were indeed deadly poisonous but couldn't bite humans, then the only way we would know that they are poisonous is by milking them and injecting the venom into humans. For a variety of reasons including Amnesty International and a humanitarian code of ethics, this research has never been done. Furthermore, there are no toxicological studies testing the lethality of pholcid venom on any mammalian system (this is usually done with mice). Therefore, no information is available on the likely toxic effects of their venom in humans, so the part of the myth about their being especially poisonous is just that: a myth. There is no scientific basis for the supposition that they are deadly poisonous and there is no reason to assume that it is true.

What about their fangs being too short to penetrate human skin? Pholcids do indeed have short fangs, which in arachnological terms is called "uncate" because they have a secondary tooth which meets the fang like the way the two grabbing parts of a pair of tongs come together. Brown recluse spiders similarly have uncate fang structure and they obviously are able to bite humans. There may be a difference in the musculature that houses the fang such that recluses have stronger muscles for penetration because they are hunting spiders needing to subdue prey whereas pholcid spiders are able to wrap their prey and don't need as strong a musculature. So, again, the myth states as fact something about which there is no scientific basis.

In summary
For true daddy-long-legs, the opilionids, the myth is certainly false, and for the daddy-long-legs spiders it is certainly not based on known facts.

Answer 3

Wow, I always thought there was some truth to that. But, apparently, it's not entirely so. Learn more at Snopes.com.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm

Long story short is that while it appears that daddy long legs have poison, they are unable to deliver it to humans or other mammals (I missed why they're unable - but it's probably on there, somewhere) and no tests have been done to determine if this kind of poison would be dangerous to mammals, so it's unknown if this type of spider venom would even affect us - should it be delivered in some manner.

Oh, and daddy long legs are referring to a kind of spider - not the winged insect that's also commonly referred to as a crane fly (and that some who answered here were referring to).

Answer 4

in simple terms regarded up wikipedia and it mentioned here- Misconceptions there is an city legend pointing out that daddy long-legs spiders have the main effective venom of any spider, yet that their chelicerae (fangs) are the two too small or too in possibility of puncture human pores and skin; the comparable legend is likewise repeated of the harvestman and crane fly, often called "daddy long-legs" in some locales. certainly, pholcid spiders do have a short fang shape (called uncate). whether, brown recluse spiders even have uncate fang shape, yet are in a position to grant medically important bites. the two pholcid venom isn't poisonous to human beings or there's a musculature distinction between the two arachnids, with recluses, being searching spiders, possessing more advantageous muscle groups for fang penetration. [5] In 2004, the invention Channel coach MythBusters got down to objective the father long-legs fable (Season a million, Episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (familiar human pores and skin thickness varies from approximately 0.5mm to 4mm), the coach's host replaced into curiously bitten, whether the bite produced little better than a tender short-lived burning sensation. This looks to substantiate the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human pores and skin, yet that their venom is very nearly possibility unfastened to human beings. additionally, recent study with the aid of Alan Van Dyke has shown that pholcid venom is definitely fairly susceptible in its consequences on bugs as properly.[6]. in accordance to the college of California at Riverside, the father long-legs spider has under no circumstances harmed a human and there is no information that they are venomous to human beings.[ so no i didnt understand that....yet its fake in any case

Answer 5

Tthe daddy long legs as you call it, is known as the crane fly lays its eggs in turf. When the eggs hatch they are call leather jackets and they live on roots of the grass. they can be very troublesome to areas of fine turf e.g. golf courses. when they emerge as the crane fly in late summer in there thousands.
But are no more venomous than house fly

Answer 6

Daddy Long legs are completely harm less they eat off harmful insects and leave humans all alone

Answer 7

two types of insect both nicknamed daddy long legs people get confused

Answer 8

No it does have teeth/fangs but they are too small to puncure the skin layers of most animals... I don't think they have a mouth though.

I once heard they have enough venom to kill a horse... no venom

Answer 9

IT has harmless venom thats some story that went around
ITS A FALLACY

Answer 10

No thats a myth, unfortunately, i hate them cos they just spiders with wings! We don't have mosquitos in Scotland so we don't need them! Come to think of it, bees make honey but what purpose do wasps have either?