2020年11月23日 · Daddy longlegs, also called harvestmen, may number 10,000 species, of which scientists have documented roughly 6,500. They inhabit moist, dark places like tree trunks, leaf litter, and caves...

2025年1月3日 · daddy longlegs, (order Opiliones), any of more than 6,000 species of arachnids (class Arachnida) that are known for their extremely long and thin legs and for their compact bodies. Daddy longlegs are closely related to scorpions (order Scorpiones) but, because of their appearance, are often mistaken as spiders (order Araneida or Araneae).

The common name "daddy long-legs" is used for several species, especially Pholcus phalangioides, but is also the common name for several other arthropod groups, including harvestmen and crane flies.

Pholcus phalangioides, commonly known as the cosmopolitan cellar spider, long-bodied cellar spider, or one of various types called a daddy long-legs spider, is a spider of the family Pholcidae. This is the only spider species described by the Swiss entomologist Johann Kaspar Füssli, who first recorded it in 1775. [1]

2022年1月16日 · You've probably heard this playground legend: Daddy longlegs are the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs are too short to bite you. Is this really true? The short answer: no.

2024年8月3日 · Like all arachnids, daddy longlegs have eight legs and tend to skitter about the way spiders do. You often see them in the same places where you see spiders, too. But daddy longlegs are more like scorpions than spiders.

Daddy longlegs are arachnids. They are also known as the harvestman. Though they closely resemble spiders, they are actually quite different. Two factors that set them apart from spiders are a...

Common names for this Order are 1) daddy-longlegs, 2) harvestmen and 3) opilionids. They are characterized by having one basic body segment which shows segmentation on the posterior portion, at most 2 eyes and all 8 legs attach to the pill-like body segment.

2004年10月6日 · While they have eight legs and an outward appearance of a spider, daddy-longlegs lack two of the most important features that make a spider a spider: silk production and venom. Daddy-longlegs do not have spinnerets that spiders have to produce silk and make webs.

2023年9月3日 · Daddy longlegs, also known as harvestmen, have an oval-shaped body with long legs. The body size ranges from about 1/16 to 1/2 inch long, and males typically have smaller bodies but longer legs than females ( source ).