daddy long-legs spiders

er...being me...i may well have got the figure slightly wrong...i'd check up on its authenticity if i were you..or me.. :& ~xx

 

daddy long legs. we used to catch them and scare the girls with them. oh the good old days

 

Ahhhhh! I'm going camping on monday and now i'm going to be scared to hop in my sleeping bag.

 

Myth: The daddy-longlegs has the world's most powerful venom, but fortunately its jaws (fangs) are so small that it can't bite you.

Fact: That is a full-fledged Urban Legend, with no basis in fact whatever. This legend is so widespread that many people believe it who should really know better, including some teachers and TV documentary producers.

Three different unrelated groups are called "daddy-longlegs." Harvestmen have no venom of any kind. None at all! Same with crane flies. Pholcid spiders have venom (like almost all spiders) but there's nothing special about it; in fact, a recent study showed that pholcid venom is unusually weak in its effect on insects. This myth is debunked at greater length on Rick Vetter's web site.

 

i have some living at my house...should i go do a leg count?

daddy long legs are probably the only spider im not afraid of.

i opened my worm farm the other day and a huge huntsman crawled out!

ewww!!!!

 

Hey charnzo, come and help me convert that car to water...