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Daddy long legs arenβt spiders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
If it looks like a spider, and acts like a spider, and freaks me out like a spider, it's close enough
In the UK what we call a daddy longlegs has wings and flies (a crane fly I think). Obviously a very widely used name for things with a small body and a bunch of long legs haha
We call those flying daddy long legs in NZ
Can't tell if you are being serious or pulling my leg with that but I love it haha. I mean it's a perfect way to distinguish because over here we have no good way to call the spiders other than 'one of those long leg small body kinda spiders' which is a terrible name.
Definitely not pulling your long leg, daddy, itβs how we distinguish between the long legged things with wings and the long legged things without
Not true. Daddy long legs is a colloquial term that refers to several different species, including spiders.
It is the name for a type of crane fly in the UK.
That doesn't look like my friend at all lol
This one here looks very much similar to my friend (thin and long body): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae
No idea why there's multiple animals called all the same way though
Cellar spiders/ daddy long legs have become catch-all terms for any spider or pseudo spider with tiny body and long legs. Anyway, webs get disturbed all the time in nature. The spider just rebuilds. As long as you don's bump in to them, they will just repair the web. If the web needs repair too often, then the spider will move elsewhere.
I see, kinda lazy nomenclature, but I guess with all the different kinds of spiders, at some point you run out of names ahah thanks for the info! I hope they stay because they've been eating good, and I appreciate the reduced amount of insects
over here (NZ) what we call daddy long legs are, I believe, known as cellar spiders in other places.
Yes, that's right. Fun fact: they eat whitetail spiders.
oh, that's cool! I thought it was the other way around.
I used to think so too! To be fair the whitetails want to eat the daddy longlegs, but they don't have the reach advantage.
There are some videos on youtube eg this one.
Can't find it right now but somewhere there's a 3 part one showing how the daddy longlegs deliberately lures the whitetail to try to come and eat it, but it's a trap.
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Depends on who you ask. Pholcidae are also called daddy longlegs and are spiders.
I read that as opulence (you own everything)
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