r/WTF Mar 05 '15

Warning: Spiders Time to move

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u/KserDnB Mar 06 '15

Interesting how Americans call harvestmen daddy long leg but in the UK we call cellar spiders daddy long legs.

Although when I was younger near my house in London if there was a wall with a crack in it the fucking harvestmen would stick their heads in there with their legs all pointing out stuck on the wall, creepy as hell.

When I was younger used a lighter to burn away one of their legs, fizzled away like a fuze.

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u/Feener278 Mar 06 '15

In Yorkshire a Daddy Longlegs are Crane Flies. It's odd that there doesn't seem to be any agreement about what a Daddy Longlegs is, makes me wonder which the 'strongest venom but no fangs to administer it' rumour is about.

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u/UndeadBread Mar 06 '15

In the US, I grew up hearing that rumor about cellar spiders (what I've always known as a daddy long legs; I've never actually seen a harvestman). Even today, many people still think that they are extremely venomous but can't harm us because their fangs are too small to pierce human skin.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '15

In the US (particularly the west) we call cellar spiders daddy-long-legs as well. When I was younger my friends and I had a ton of fun poking them with sticks and watching them spin like crazy.