Hi. I think you are confusing this with the harvestman. these cellar spiders are true spiders and are web dwellers, Opiliones produce no web, and legs can be proportionately longer. The confusion is the moniker daddy long legs, with ‘spider’ inclusive,this insinuates the true spider rather than the harvestman. These spiders are still totally harmless, worth having about, they will eat any other arthropod they can trap in their web, even spiders like black widow. A myth about these is they are the most poisonous spider but fangs too small to bite humans. This is wrong on both counts, they… Read more »
Hi. Long bodied cellar spider, Pholcus phalangioides species. AKA daddy long leg spider. totally harmless.
Thanks but I don’t think that is a daddy long legs. Its legs are not that long, and it was on a web. I’ve never seen a daddy long legs on a web.
Hi. I think you are confusing this with the harvestman. these cellar spiders are true spiders and are web dwellers, Opiliones produce no web, and legs can be proportionately longer. The confusion is the moniker daddy long legs, with ‘spider’ inclusive,this insinuates the true spider rather than the harvestman. These spiders are still totally harmless, worth having about, they will eat any other arthropod they can trap in their web, even spiders like black widow. A myth about these is they are the most poisonous spider but fangs too small to bite humans. This is wrong on both counts, they… Read more »
Great. Thank you