09-30-2011, 02:45 PM
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Originally Posted by infinite monkey
I'm the same about Daddy Long Legs. They are cute.
They're not spiders, they're harvestmen.
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From wikipedia:
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Although they belong to the class of arachnids, harvestmen are not spiders, which are of the order Araneae rather than the order Opiliones.
In some places, harvestmen are known by the name "daddy longlegs" or "granddaddy longlegs", but this name is also used for two other unrelated arthropods: the crane fly (Tipulidae) and the cellar spider (Pholcidae).
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Well, I guess that settles it.
(embiggening mine)
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