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1. on May 11, 2012 at 4:52 pm Are daddy longlegs spiders? | Pet Care Articles and Media Around the Web

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2. on May 11, 2012 at 10:20 pm Jan

   I was once told that they had the most poisonous venom out of all the spiders but that they were not able to pierce through skin like other spiders. Is that true?

   
   
3. on May 11, 2012 at 10:24 pm Jan

   Found the answer “An urban legend claims that the harvestman is the most venomous animal in the world, but possesses fangs too short or a mouth too round and small to bite a human and therefore is not dangerous (the same myth applies to Pholcus phalangioides and the cranefly, which are both also called a ‘daddy longlegs’).[5] This is untrue on several counts. None of the known species of harvestmen have venom glands; their chelicerae are not hollowed fangs but grasping claws that are typically very small and definitely not strong enough to break human skin. This myth is so pervasive that it was debunked by two popular television shows, MythBusters and Bill Nye The Science Guy.”

   
   
   • on May 11, 2012 at 10:45 pm retrieverman

     It’s in the other video– 8 misconceptions about animals.

     
     
4. on May 12, 2012 at 8:34 am megrim43

   Harvestmen are arachnids, but not spiders. We have many of them here, usually in late summer. My Dionaeas (Venus flytraps) catch so many that they look as if they have grown a coat of hair, as the long legs stick out above the traps.
   Cant imagine the advantage to having such long legs…..

   Elizabeth

   
   
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