Comments & ID Thoughts
Please help me find out what this is
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- Submitted: May 17, 2018
- Photographed: May 15, 2018
- Spider: Opiliones (Harvestmen)
- Location: Magalia , California, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc),Forest
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hi there the spider in your photo may not be a spider but that is a daddy long leg the are also Argiope aurantia.
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This is a Harvestman/Opiliones (some people call them Daddy Long-legs), they are arachnids but are separate from spiders (Araneae). They lack venom and silk glands.
I thought they were mainly house spiders, the area was very forested and there were bunches of them running through the dirt and leaves. But I don’t know what else they would be.