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Im sitting at texas roadhouse and my 15yr old cousin starts talking about how hes afraid of spiders. Ya 15, Male Afraid of spiders something fruity there. Anyhow i start talking about daddy long legs and he claims there not a spider.

Daddy Long legs i guess are raccoons? maybe a Seabass? Perhaps a Dolphin? I asked him what it is then if its not a spider. He said he can't remember what its called its just not a spider. So im like ok whatever.

About 10 mins go by and hes like well when I get home ill look on the internet and you can give me 50 dollars for winning the bet that its a not a spider. i never said anything about money or anything. So im like umm ok and what do i get when i win? He doesn't say becuase he has it set in his head he's right.

So get home I pull out the Dictonary and look up daddy long legs. First it says {britian} something about a fly. So hes like i told you its a fly. 50 dollars bla bla. I was like umm that applies to England notice the britian in front of it. #2 an arachnid with a 4 pairs of legs. again hes like told you not a spider. LOL so we look up arachnid i think we all know what it said.

He says Websters is wrong, Multiple internet searches yeilded same results. 5 hours later he thinks someone changed everything in the 10 mins it took to get home to prove him wrong.

HAHAHAHAHA i had to share this just to funny

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Actually, your cousin is right... Kind of.

There are 2 kinds of Daddy Long Legs -- one is a spider, one is not. The Daddy Long Leg Spider (explicitly stated as such) is different from the Daddy Long Legs (without "spider" on the end).

The kind that we're familiar with that we find in our garages and what not are not spiders.


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Originally posted by sigma:
Actually, your cousin is right... Kind of.


The kind that we're familiar with that we find in our garages and what not are not spiders.




Yep. If I recall correctly, it's more closely related to the mite or tick, than to the spider.


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True but the Indoor "Daddy Long Leg" is a spider. There ya go some info

Them ones with the huge body are the harvestmen. i see them all the time in the UP of MI, Theres like a million of the Daddy long leg spiders at my work

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Two of the three with "daddy long legs" as a reference are technically not spiders, so I believe you owe your cousin $33.

BTW, the one I typically call daddy long legs is the middle picture (the actual spider one), so maybe he'll cut you a little slack...


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This kid never goes outside so hes talking about the acctual spider. The one in britian is a fly or some crazyness. Soo Hes still wrong. I said daddy long legs in a convo about spiders i know there is a spider and a whatever he thinks that there is no spider. So he gets no pity from me.

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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
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obviously everyone posting in this thread except you


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True but the Indoor "Daddy Long Leg" is a spider. There ya go some info

Them ones with the huge body are the harvestmen. i see them all the time in the UP of MI, Theres like a million of the Daddy long leg spiders at my work




All the Daddy Long Legs I have ever seen, usually in basements, attics, garages, sheds, etc, were not the spider variety. Maybe up in MI is different though.


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