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Can anyone identify this spider?
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- Submitted: Jul 25, 2021
- Photographed: Jul 23, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
This looks like an Opilione. An arachnid, but not a spider. They do not possess venom glands, nor do they create webbing.
Sometimes they get called Daddy Long-legs, but there is also a genus of spiders that get called the same nickname. However, this looks like an Opilione. I don’t know which particular species.
Many, many thanks. I will pass this info onto the ‘owner’.
Exactly right in my Native Minnesotan opinion, you see “daddy longlegs” everywhere a lot in Minnesota. Someone told me once that they are poisonous but their fangs cannot penetrate human skin. Also, I have never seen one with a pair of legs that long. No pun intended.. LOL!
That “SO venomous, but the fangs are SO small they cannot pierce skin” is a popular urban legend.