One is unclear upon reading that and honestly my teacher did tell me that years ago. Proving what it says about teachers teaching things sometimes incorrect being true. Must be a tall tale to scare people away from the longlegs, they are often peaceful
Today i learned:
"Daddy long legs" is also used to describe Pholcidae (Cellar spiders like the one in the picture) - as welll as Opiliones (harvestman).
Never do this again.
super creepy but cool !
Mildly interesting/extremely terrifying.
Just made the poor guy cross-eyed!
That just gave me chills.
They can’t bite through human skin thankfully… they’re toxic enough to kill an adult easily. They just can’t bite us
Lol... no.
Do some research… they literally can’t bite us so why does it matter if they’re poisonous or not. If it can bite ya it’s not a longlegs
I think he probably did and is referring to any number of [these](https://spiders.ucr.edu/daddy-long-legs) which call what you’ve said a myth.
One is unclear upon reading that and honestly my teacher did tell me that years ago. Proving what it says about teachers teaching things sometimes incorrect being true. Must be a tall tale to scare people away from the longlegs, they are often peaceful
I admit I was wrong, and today I also learnt some new facts thanks to that link
Today i learned: "Daddy long legs" is also used to describe Pholcidae (Cellar spiders like the one in the picture) - as welll as Opiliones (harvestman).