Three arthropod species are commonly known as (Grand)Daddy LongLegs. A useful internet article gives information on identifying one these species.

http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Eastern-Harvestman

Did you find this useful or interesting? If I find any more interesting articles I'll share them on another thread.

Um, okay. That's nice.

Neat. Didn't know they weren't spiders.

Knotty_Curls said:
Neat. Didn't know they weren't spiders.

Are you kidding? They have wings. Spiders never have wings

NewsKat said:
If I find any more interesting articles I'll share them on another thread.

Please don't.

Don't care. Kill with fire.

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
Are you kidding? They have wings. Spiders never have wings

What the English call Daddy Longlegs, Americans call craneflies. When Americans say Daddy Longlegs, they're talking about a goofy-looking spider-like arachnid, also known as the Harvestman. I see them all the time hanging around the beehives, preying on the colonies. I've even seen them get ahold of wasps and spiders.

aurel said:
The thing! Multiple scary little things are called "daddy long legs"

Ozelot said:
Don't care. Kill with fire.

I will never understand people who are afraid of bugs. You should direct your fear to something worthy of it, like hippos.

Fenrick said:
I will never understand people who are afraid of bugs. You should direct your fear to something worthy of it, like hippos.

I hate spiders. Other bugs don't bother me.

Fenrick said:
What the English call Daddy Longlegs, Americans call craneflies. When Americans say Daddy Longlegs, they're talking about a goofy-looking spider-like arachnid, also known as the Harvestman. I see them all the time hanging around the beehives, preying on the colonies. I've even seen them get ahold of wasps and spiders.
I will never understand people who are afraid of bugs. You should direct your fear to something worthy of it, like hippos.

There actually is a true sider also called the daddy longlegs. I know because we have them everywhere.

I quite like insects and arachnids, especially moths, butterflies, and bees. It's hard to keep myself from playing with them if I find them, provided they aren't aggressive, just ask anyone. On warm nights I'll even take walks around campus just to see/play with/take photos of any I may find near the lights.

aurel said:
EEEVEEERYWHEREEEEEEE

:3

Ratte said:
I quite like insects and arachnids, especially moths, butterflies, and bees. It's hard to keep myself from playing with them if I find them, provided they aren't aggressive, just ask anyone. On warm nights I'll even take walks around campus just to see/play with/take photos of any I may find near the lights.

Do you find jumping spiders a lot? Because jumping spiders are adorable.

Pillbugs are actually crustaceans. Learned that back in middle school.

http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Common-Pillbug

I love trivial facts that surprise people. Even more so when they confuse them.

A little favorite of mine is "a day on planet Venus is longer than its year." People are accustomed to the idea that a year is comprised of hundreds of days without really considering what they actually signify on a celestial scale.

GameManiac said:
Do you find jumping spiders a lot? Because jumping spiders are adorable.

I love jumping spiders. Had one living in my window all summer, sometimes it would come out and sit on the screen when I had my lamp on.

GameManiac said:
Do you find jumping spiders a lot? Because jumping spiders are adorable.

IKR!?

Ratte said:
I quite like insects and arachnids, especially moths, butterflies, and bees. It's hard to keep myself from playing with them if I find them, provided they aren't aggressive, just ask anyone. On warm nights I'll even take walks around campus just to see/play with/take photos of any I may find near the lights.

A few fun facts about bees, since my family has a few colonies:
Males, which have no stingers (as stingers are actually repurposed ovipositors), exist only to mate, so they just sit around eating food that they don't have to work for when they're not trying to get some. If that sounds like they're living the good life, if a drone has not mated by the time winter nears, his sisters will tear his wings off and force him out of the colony. If he does manage to mate with a queen, his abdomen explodes and he dies.
Bees can survive the winter by vibrating their wings so increase the temperature of the hive.
The queen, unlike other bees, would be able to sting you multiple times without dying. But queens only use their stingers to kill other queens of the same colony.

Bees also don't mind daddy longlegs hanging around their hives, I guess they help clean the place up.