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A True Daddy long leg

By Michaelgmcdonald

10 Sep, 2008
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Notice that there's only one body part. This is a true daddy long leg, not a spider. Though, the bite is poisonous, it hardly attacks people. It will, however, take over other spiders webs and kill the one that made it. There is a spider that people confuse for a daddy long leg, but it has a different name. The true daddy long leg is not a spider and only has one body part.

Comments on this photo

Chrispook

Here the ones we call daddy long legs are the cranefly.

11 Sep, 2008

Michaelgmcd..

Really? we get crane flies too and they look nothing like it. YEah, thjey have long legs, but only 6. Their apart of the insect family. Daddy long legs are arachnids, though, not a spider.

11 Sep, 2008

Michaelgmcd..

sorry, it's early. I can't type yet.It's also cold and my fingers are numb.

11 Sep, 2008