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- The harvestmen, or Opiliones members, are also known as daddy long legs. They share this common name with at least two other animals: the crane fly and the cellar spider Learn more Opiliones facts with today's episode. We've discussed other daddy long legs facts on Animal Fact Files, as well!
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"They just lack a defined waist"
Me too, buddy. Me too.
U got snap?
@@the_highnmighty_native8685 I don't, sorry. :(
@@ellenbrooks8061 all good. What's your #
@@the_highnmighty_native8685 interesting
@@the_highnmighty_native8685 not to be rude, but I only give my number to people I know. Good luck on your hunt for new friends, though!
"The Opiliones" sounds like a mafia clan. "Why do you disrespect the Opiliones?"
Appropriate since they form vast collective clumps that look like moss.
Ha, good one!
Bro it sounds like a new york mafia
Or some college a cappella group
@@opiumized that's to perfect 😭😭
“Opiliones live in:
-forests
-caves
-grasslands
-mountains
-wetlands
-trees”
You left out:
-my basement 😁
pretty sure he said caves 🧐 (I am making fun of your residence)
My shower
Under beds
I knew that was going to be there before I even clicked on "read more", cause we have the same situation.
They thrive in my bedroom and bathroom.
The only "Spiders" I could pick up as a kid with the no fear, maybe because it's essentially a pea on stilts
Lol! 😆
Yes! 😆
I think they are way creepier than (most) spiders. Those long thin legs creeps me out.
I like the name comrade
Love the description
I feel like everyone is so used to hearing the nickname since childhood that we become desensitized to how that is the most adorable nickname ever.
sounds pretty kinky to me but hey 🤷♂️
@@densonjc 🤨
@@densonjc ˢᵃᵐᵉ (°ー°〃)
Lady bug and rolly Polly have entered the chat.
@@vedinthorn Stink Bug has now arrived.
My daughter around age 4 or 5 called them grand daddy lawn mowers. Still melts my heart!
i will now be calling them this from now on
Man we should change the name in honor of your adorable daughter comin up with the best nickname ever
Daddy Long Legs: "Fear thee not, Fore I am no Spider and with Thee."
Arachnophob's: *"NAY THEE!"*
Why do you only comment once
@@ashnthree because he's lighting
You could argue arachnophobia is a fear of arachnids, regardless if they are true spiders or not
@@jerrywang8945 if it looks like a spider then they'll be afraid of it
This sounds like a Monty Python skit waiting to happen.
I've seen these all of my life here in Florida. Harmless things that just be-bop along, doing their own thing.
Sane in VA
Bebop right along! 😊
Florida man wow
People always step on them or smash them it's annoying. I'm like do you like flies and mosquitoes? Then don't kill them.
What are they doing
They are pretty cute. Yesterday I saved one which was at my house and I almost stepped on it. I took it outside and put it on grass. It was climbing up my arm and it was pretty cool how it was "feeling out" its surroundings with the long legs. Also it tickled a lot!
They're totally harmless and quite innocent creatures.
What a pleasant experience with nature! Love that!
When I was a kid, my Mom told us they were poisonous so we wouldn't bother them. She knew they were harmless....lol
Oooh, Mom was a trickster (but pretty dang smart!)!!
@@AnimalFactFiles are they the same with the ones found inside the house? We have here ones with webs and food residues that looked like finished lunches.
@@madelgamer8741. That One is Probably Cellar Spider
Awwww
@@madelgamer8741 bruh
Raised on a small farm, I remember my Grandfather telling us that Granddaddy Long Legs were not dangerous and not to kill them because they eat bugs. As I grew up I couldn’t believe how many people told me that Granddaddy Long Legs were a highly venomous spider and to stay away from them. I’m so glad you posted this video.
Definitely not dangerous. They couldn't inject you with venom if they wanted to.
That old lie, they are venomous but their mouths are too small to bite!!!🤣 I'm with you. This video was informative.
@@carolgrier7774 This video said that Daddy long legs aren't venomous to us though
@@carolgrier7774 They are extremely venomous however they simply can't bite humans so to us they aren't dangerous.
@@CountDraccula That is completely untrue, they are NOT venomous in any way, that was just an old wives tale.
When I was little we would get millions of them clumped together on the back porch. It's kind of mesmerizingly hypnotic watching them all bounce in unison.
Frrrrr
Lol
The way they run reminds me of the spider from Wild Wild West lol super bouncy
This gave me full body chills
I’m 37 years old and just now learned this. I used to play with them all the time and was told they were the most poisonous spider in the world but to small to bite a human. Crazy
This is what I was told as a child as well. Finally I learn the truth as I quickly approach 50.
Same here but 31 years. Parents told me this and I told my children this. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ Who created this lie we’ve all been told?!? 😂
41 and was told the same thing. Still played with bundles of them as a kid lol. Guess I'll have to school my kids on this.
Yep. I'm 39 and I was told this my entire life by people, and I told other people.
Thank you for this video. Great information. I've got everyone beat. I'm 64. It seems like everyday I learn a new truth. It also seems everyday people attempt to force several blatant lies upon everyone else. Educate do not indoctrinate.
My grandpa had them all over his sheds and he said they were doing the world good so he left them for me to admire.
Now he's gone but I still love their beady little eyes. They're kinda cute.
Yeah they are
That's lovely
@Rachel Anderson I know you probably didn't mean that to be funny. But it sounds kinda funny. Sorry.
@Rachel Anderson Yeah most of the time. But I am probably not gonna long for lobster smothered in butter and garlic.
Or maybe I already am. :c
@Rachel Anderson So nothing made by Russians or the Chinese government. Got it.
I like Daddy Long Leggs, and never bother them when they're around the outside of our house. They're peaceful, don't try to crawl on you, jump at you, or get into the house. And they eat ants. I consider them little pest guardians for our home, and they are kinda cute in a way. ❤
i personally disagree, i once looked to the side to see a dll on my shoulder and gave me a heart attack. THE LEGS MAN, THE LEGS
@@BoSil-gl3wn 🤣
bruh you have it lucky with your residence of them. the ones around here have crawled on me, and tried to crawl on me many times before. they are all around my room. and the only thing they eat is each other, even tough there are other bugs they could eat with relative ease. and for some reason i allways been extremely disgusted and afraid of them, so as you can imagine i do not appraciate their presence. man, i HATE them. i want them dead, gone. but i am also afraid of even making contact with a dead one, honestly it being dead makes it worse when it comes to having to touch it.
@@ProfessionalHumanTrash my friend if you ever had a stinkbug or cockroach infestation you'd quickly realize that you were lucky just to have harvestmen. At least harvestmen don't fly or produce a foul odor, i'd much rather have 10 harvestmen in my kitchen than a single cockroach or stinkbug. (cockroaches are obviously worse than stinkbugs but if you've ever dealt with stinkbugs you'd never loathe another insect more)
I’ve always loved these little guys. As a child, my brothers and I found some in our basement and my dad taught us about how they are harmless to people. He let one crawl on his arm and said it tickled, so I wanted to try. After that, I considered them our little friends!
You're brave, I can't even go near these things without being terrified
@@kingbee5025 awe, I’m sorry you have such an intense phobia. I know how it is. I feel that way about silverfish…
you got lucky
most people probably couldn't even knowing that they're harmless bc we associate them with spiders
@@gim3209 you can eat them.
Nice. They have a weird tickle because their legs are a really light touch, but then they keep slamming their body into you, especially when they stop moving. I've seen them do this a lot in cracks, tucking their bodies right down and spreading their legs along lines in their surroundings.
I always thought that they were "spiders" since they do _look_ like them; but I _never_ thought that they were "venomous" at all, but I still wouldn't want one crawling on me because they slightly creep me out especially the bigger ones.
I love the bigger ones crawling over me. That said, its on my terms, no surprise tickles thanks.
I thought so too. We have here way up the ceiling and the high corners of our house. I'm confused if they are the same.
The only one os this kind Im cool with are the adorable bunny one .
Otherwise
I wouldnt hurt one but sir , stay in the corner lol
@@Goabnb94 WHAT
I seen one and thought it was a puppy with 8legs. So I told it have a nice day.
Hey guys there's a spider over here.
"Ah! Kill it! Kill it!"
It's a Daddy Long Legs.
"Aww, let me hold it!"
Ayo that kinda sus
This was genuinely informative. I was one of those people who grew up with the myth that they were highly venomous spiders that simply can't harm us due to having very small fangs...or something stupid along those lines.
Now I learned they're not even spiders lol
We were all told this lie
Yeah, that was what I learned as a Girl Scout. Guess Girl Scouts need to update their curriculum
They are a part of the spider family (technically)
well like he mentioned near the start of the video, you may have been looking at a spider as there is a species of spider that is also called daddy long legs
@@huonsmith yes the actual Daddy's Long Legs spider is also called Cellar Spider, are very small with long thin legs. They often hang out in dark corners of bathrooms and basements. They will hang from there web and spin like a pendulum to confuse insects and hide. Of course not at all dangerous to humans and should be left alone as they eat more dangerous spiders like Brown Recluse.
"Opilliones may gather in groups for: safety in numbers, predator confusion, humidity regulation, world domination, etc."
Drill instructor: "WHAT DO WE DO IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY?!"
Recruits: "BOOP WITH OUR TAPPY FEETS!!!"
Drill instructor: "WHAT DO WE DO WHEN WHEN FACING CERTAIN DOOM?!"
Recruits: "SQUIRT GOO FROM OUR CEPHALOTHOR-ASSES!"
As a child living in New Orleans there was an old steam locomotive on display. It was covered in large Daddy Long legs and you could let the climb all over you. They were friendly and liked people.
Imagine how cool it would be to ride around on a giant harvestmen.
Play morrowind lol
Or if you were small enough to fit on its back and see what it sees
People would be very menacing if that was a thing
Yeah
@@goodcitizen7064 Have you read my name? I already do!
When i was in Kindergarden a "Weberknecht" (the German term for Daddy Long Legs which roughly translates to weavers servant probably because they liked the workshop of a weaver in the old days) scared me really bad so i always avoided them at all costs from then on until i was a teenager, from that moment on the fear turned into fascination mainly because i learned back then that they can't harm me even if they wanted to. Now i am a 38 year old man who stops working in his garden when i see one of these funny looking fellows and always snap at least one picture of them. Just today I observed two of them on the outside of my old wooden garage doors, for some reason they like to just sit there and chill. Perfect for taking pictures of them. :)
PS: It's also really nice of them to never come inside my house. They stay in the garden where they belong. I like spiders and insects but not inside my home please.
As a kid from Kentucker, I actually thought they were spiders. But despite my arachnophobia, even as a kid they never scared me. They looked weird, yes, but everyone in my family knew these bois were surprisingly docile. I never had the fear of getting bit by these boys.
I remember seeing a lot of them chillin' on walls and ceilings at my grandma's house. Since it was a cow farm (which tends to attract lots of flies) is probably why they thrived there. The largest ones were about 1 cm in length and .5 cm in thickness, but their legs were just unbelievably long. I often wandered how in the world can they walk when each leg was like 4 to 5 inches in length.
Are you sure it wasn’t cellar spiders you saw on the walls and ceilings of your grandma’s house? They look similar but they are different animals, though both are often called daddy longlegs. Cellar spiders are actual spiders and often build webs in people’s homes whereas harvestmen usually crawl on the ground outside.
@@bj0rnen I've seen them in the yard, the house, on walls (inside and out) on trees, on me but they don't normally stay there long when I feel them walking.
That sounds like the real insect daddylonglegs, rather than Harvestmen, which is what this guy is actually talking about, so confusingly
I remember once in the summer we had a party outside and spilled some Doritos. In the early morning i went outside to clean up and i saw a daddy longlegs dragging off a tiny piece of Dorito.
Hahaha! That’s amazing! 😂
Bro Longchill
Shoulda offered him some dip.
"Hmmm gotta move this treasure before those damned Ants find it. Yoink!"
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I love daddy long legs, they’re one of my favorite bugs because they look really cool and funny looking, they have a cool name, they eat bugs that I don’t like, and they cuddle together in bunches and are really social unlike most arachnids, that’s just so endearing to me
In the UK “daddy longlegs” is a crane-fly and this animal is called a “Harvestman.”
Don't know where you come from...but crane flies where called daddy long legs and dragon flies and it stressed me out as a kid as it does now as an adult. Oh my god. 😂
I am from Yorkshire and yes, these are known as harvestmen, and a daddy long legs is a crane fly.
What you call crane flies, we call the "may flys" or "skeeter eaters" here in the US.
@@finalcam1740 but may flues here, are tiny ass flies ...we're a stupid species omg 😂😂😂😂😭
@@doesyomamaknowtho1468 lol we aren't stupid. It's not hard to imagine people separated by oceans nick name things differently.
This in land
Humans: EWW WE CANT EAT THAT ITS AN INSECT
This in the water
Humans: yummy crab very yummy
Yup, that’s why my husband and I call them “sea bugs.”
Yes but Crabs aren’t insects or arachnids. They are crustaceans that live mostly in the ocean so you can’t really make a comparison like that.
The difference is that bugs typically have goo like insides where as sea life has meat like insides
@@RuanAntunes7
Crabs are just as much insects as spiders are, which is to say, not at all.
Also they're all arthropods so yes actually, you CAN make that comparison.
@@ParaSpite insects have six legs lol. So no you can’t
I've always been fascinated by Daddy long legs as a kid. My mom and dad said that they are a benefit to have around because they help by getting rid of invasive bugs that could harm the gardens. Couple of times while taking showers there were a couple of them and I gently picked them up and put them outside.
I love what you did here. I always knew they where not spiders but Opiliones is all news to me. Thanks buddy
Glad you learned something new! 😊
Same here
We have them clinging to the walls outside our house. Just plain gray-ish brown ones. Usually just sitting alone in one spot for days and never in groups. There'd been a guy on TV some time ago, discussing how they were not even related to spiders, but closer related to scorpion if anything. He flipped out over a pale red-brown variety he found somewhere on a building, saying it was very uncommon. I saw a red-brown one outside our wall a few weeks ago and thought about that for half a sec. 🤷♂️ ᵒᵏ
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Spiders and scorpions are both arachnids like daddy long legs so technically they're close to both lol
Oh hey, fancy seeing you here.
Come to think of it, it's been quite a while since I've seen any daddy long legs around my house, but we used to see at least a couple of them all of the time when I was a kid. I wonder why they stopped showing up more recently.
@@Xarosai for real
Welp, pretty sure I've been calling "Cellar Spiders" Daddy long legs my entire life. Didn't know Opiliones existed, all the long legs I've seen made webs.
Cellar Spiders are a different species, they just look similar. Look for the body, cellar spiders still have that defined waist.
My parents would always tell us that Daddy Long Legs are harmless, very docile, and helpful with keeping bugs like flies away and so we shouldn’t kill them. They are one of the few bugs I don’t fear or try to actively kill if one ends up in my house.
I tried this for a time. I saw one on the wall and thought I'd let it live for once, since it could help with other pests. A couple of days later I saw a small fly mocking it, even briefly tapping on it while the long legs didn't do as much as move. I got rid of it not long after
@@xXlURMOMlXx Imagine being bullied by a fly
"They are one of the few bugs I don’t fear or try to actively kill if one ends up in my house."
I'm curious as to what the other bugs are that you let live.
Arachnids aren't bugs, they are closer to crustaceans than insects
@Lee Wilson what about a brown recluse?
Up close they’re actually like of adorable, with those tiny eyes just kinda slapped on there.
its a bean boi with legs
@@andobtw8046 lmao
1 daddy long legs isn’t scary at all. Just pick the little guy up. It’s when there are hundreds or even thousands of them that I freak tf out.
As kids, for some reason we never wanted to step on them. They seemed to be just calmly passing by, so we got out of their way. Thanks for the information, you learn something new every day.
It's a detachable escape pod, in case of emergency.
I never looked at these things too closely when I was a kid, so the fact that they have a tiny little nub with two eyes on either side poking out of the top of their head is both hilarious and slightly disturbing
'Opiliones Order' sounds like an obscure Space Marine Chapter lol
Ordo Opiliones reporting for duty!
Awwwwwww, Daddy Longlegs are actually involved in their offspring’s life. Cute! (Also, the variation of the venomous harvester myth I heard as a kid was that they indeed are highly venomous, but their mouths are so impossibly tiny that they can’t pierce a human’s skin)
i love Daddy Longlegs. My parents always told me they were harmless to us, and were super docile, and even if they wanted to bite us, their fangs were too small to do anything so, we had nothing to fear with them. Some of those were misconceptions they also probably beleived, but the overall message of them being no danger to us taught me and my brothers to feel comfortable and safe around them with no reason to harm them. they're cute too, i loved finding one and playing with it as a kid, then letting it go after a few minutes so it go kill those bastard mosquitoes XD
It's really heartwarming to hear about kids who are taught to be kind to nature. Love this message
doesn't the nasty smell they emit disgust you? i smelled it as a child; since they I have always been repulsed by them.
@@stephenmartinez1 the only common insect that had a nasty smell i experienced were lady bugs. Never had any aromatic experience with these lil buddies.
@@stephenmartinez1 I'd let them crawl on my hands. As long as you don't pinch or pick them up by their legs, they won't release the stinky Chemical. Same with stinkbugs, which I find to have a very interesting behavior. They're highly alert and aware of their surroundings.
I'm fairly certain they don't have fangs at all, but more so pincers like scorpions but are really small, so small they get mistaken for fangs. They use those pincers kinda like crabs use theirs to bring food up to their mouths.
That still doesn’t change the fact that I’m scared😂
Flenzaiツ well at least u know they can’t bite
@@fukeller1026 they prob can but they're harmless (probably)
I have always loved Daddy Long Legs! I used to catch them in my hands and let them crawl around on me when I was a kid. They would let me stroke their legs. Very nice little animals! I also loved to catch and play with frogs too. 😎
Person 1: Omg look at that spider it has long legs, what should we call it?
Person 2: How about 'Long legs'?
Person 1: Sounds good.
Person 3: ......make it *Kinkier*
I'm dying
This video just told you that they aren't spiders. But perhaps it doesn't matter since you were talking about naming them and then they might have been thought to be spiders
As in :" Who's your Daddy.." 🤦♂️🙄
💀💀💀
Literally named a “daddy” long leg because they protect their eggs
As a landscaper, I'm constantly swatting these off, but I never feel compelled to kill them. The sensation of them on your skin is creepy. I'm glad they're toothless.
When I was a kid I lived in Wisconsin. I used to play with the Daddy Long Legs by picking them up gently or letting them walk on my hands. I would cry if they dropped their leg and ran away.
Just to clear up some confusion. As mentioned at the beginning of the video, there are at least *three* different animals that share the common name "daddy long legs":
-cellar spiders (family Pholcidae) --> video on them here: czcams.com/video/ls45yelmXKY/video.html
-crane flies (family Tipulidae) --> video on them here: czcams.com/video/2RF6iyrwAeU/video.html
-harvestmen (order Opiliones) *the animals featured in this video*
Cellar spiders _are_ spiders and _do_ make webs and _do_ have venom. They are able to bite people but their bite is not dangerous to humans.
Crane flies are insects. They do not produce venom and they are harmless to humans. Sometimes people call them "male mosquitoes".
Opiliones, which are featured in this video, are arachnids but not spiders. Other arachnids include scorpions, mites, ticks, etc. Opiliones do not have fangs, do not produce venom, and are harmless to humans.
Hopefully that helps clear some stuff up! Thank you all for watching and commenting!
Correcting a 3 yr old vid, that’s dedication! Thanks for your info!
Wait... why then, if they cannot produce silk, are the daddy long legs in my house, living in (spider)webs?
Ah, because they must be the cellar variety. Thanks for the clarification :)
If hypothetically you get bit by a cellar spider even though they arent known to bite humans, would you even feel it?
@@snowmorgan4115 No, he's right. In this country, people often call Crane Flies "Daddy Long Legs".
The myth about the "most venomous" actually refers to cellar spiders, which are in fact spiders. The myth is, of course, a falsehood.
That's just what the Harvestmen tell us. The cellar spiders say its the crane flies. And the crane flies argue its the Harvestmen. The propaganda war continues...
I still hear kids say daddy long legs are venomous, but their mouths are too small to bite human skin so they can't hurt us. I also keep having to tell people that crane flies are not giant, mutant mosquitoes.
@@BigAl444 My Granny use to tell us kids the same thing ..
No, it isn't. It's a myth told all over the US, while the use of "daddy long legs" to refer to basement spiders is restricted to a small part of the US on the west coast.
The myth about cellar spiders being the most venomous is because cellar spiders eat other spiders so presumably they would need a really strong venom. I purposefully let them flourish in my garage because they control the black widow and brown recluse populations. Black widows are the most annoying of all spiders. Always making nests right where you put your hands on things.
They are so adorable, I saw one in my house a few weeks earlier. It was grey with a beige underbelly like a little dragon 🥺😭✨ so cute
I have watched these Opilliones for years, and thought they were social, since they seemed to hang out together when outside. I thought they were poisonous, but had no fangs and only hurt animals that ate them I always left them be, or moved them because they were beneficial predators like preying mantis.
Animals are VENOMOUS, plants are poisonous. 😉
@@Ujuani68 No
Animals and plants can be both
@@Ujuani68 toxins ingested via swallowing are poison. there is a myth that daddy long legs are poisonous- being eaten would cause harm. but it's false
@@Ujuani68 venom is a toxin that is injected into the blood, usually via fangs, while poison is a toxin that needs to be ingested and eaten, so animals can be poisonous or venomous, but plants can only be poisonous on the account of… having no teeth
Right. I forgot that some frogs are poisonous. 😄
For my family when we talked about daddy long legs we were referring to cellar spiders. So it was always extra confusing to me when people would say they are not spiders. Cuz cellar spiders totally are. The I figured out they meant harvestmen.
It's amazing the kind of confusion that common animal names can cause! Glad you were able to figure things out. 😊
Same here, I was taught to leave the little spiders alone too. Not a big issue for me since I have a fear of touching spiders (very specifically touching, can't even touch pictures), even the harmless and cute ones. But I still liked watching the cellar spiders do their thing, I'd even catch bugs to feed them so I could watch them eat.
I've always wondered if the "mountain tarantulas" we had were wolf spiders or just a large jumping spider. I remember them being a vivid iridescent green and black color, sometimes with white stripes, and hairy. They were bigger than most spiders in the area, with just the widows really being bigger, but way smaller than any other tarantula i've seen, and I've never been able to find a picture that looks like the ones we had. I loved them dearly despite being terrified they'd jump on me, they were so active and curious about their world. I rarely saw them do threat displays when interacting with me, more like fakeout charges and just evading me looking at them.
I'd love to keep them as pets, they're gorgeous.
@@Kirhean your description sounds like a large jumping spider, I've never heard of an iridescent wolf spider! Jumping spiders are the good guys. Cellar spiders are too, but they don't want to be your friend like jumping spiders do.
I've been seeing Daddy Long Legs all my life. I had wondered why I'm not afraid of them when I'm afraid of spiders. This video cleared things up for me and thanks to it, I now know that they're not spiders, which explains why I don't get nervous whenever I see them.
I have seen a large grouping of daddies "harvestment" in person a couple of times and even as someone who likes the creepy-crawly things, it's pretty freaky.
That would be cool and perhaps a bit unsettling to see in real life!
I'd bring a flamethrower.
Bruh there just like black ants crawling on to you but doesnt bite huh, since daddy long legs dont exist in philippines because of the predator that hunts them lurking in the darkness of dust similar to daddys long legs they are small and have abdomens.
Daddy being freaky doe 😳
@@bragtime1052 😳
Who on planet earth looked at this thing and called it "daddy" whomst and WHY???
Wow thay arnt calling it daddy that's the name
@@mazlynnheggie5114 that's what they're saying.
for real. let's call this long legs.. no that's not sexy enough. Daddy Long Legs
Why are you saying my name
Me
Lol, i love watching them just bop along. I find them around the old junk we got. They are pretty funny to watch. I remember seeing one come out and like mach 100, just abuzzing along
Im now terrified and slightly smarter.
Me too
Same😅😨
Why are you terrified ?
Lmao same
@@darrellwilliams1714: ngl, they look like ticks but with long legs😰
You can literally not walk outside without seeing them hanging on the side of our house or tromping across the driveway here in Alaska. They just exist and we let them lol
I visited family out in the country as a small child, and as soon as we opened the car door I saw those guys walking about all over the place
They are decent people.
I've never been somewhere that didnt have these guys in abundance.
I remember going to Arkansas and driving way out into the woodsy forest area. Just looking into the tree lines you could see hundreds all over the trees and crawling around the ground.
Fellow Alaskan here. I literally just chased one out of my living room lmfaooo
I love these little guys. Have always had them in the garage and used to have a bunch of them crawl up me as a kid
Ah the ole Daddy Long Legs "Spider" I remember hearing the myth as a nipper that they be the most poisonous animal on the planet, but their wee fangs just couldn't pierce human skin.😂🕷💚
Yo, don put ya accent in ya words
Aye, true be dat.
Biggest guy in school that honestly scared everyone due to his size and how he acted turned into the biggest screaming little girl when I put one on his shoulder without warning. He never scared anyone ever again. It actually didn't hurt his rep though ... He made a ton of friends after that. Just made people realize he was not a big scary guy. Just a big scaredy guy 😂 You're welcome Robert!!!!!
If you did that to me I'd beat you down.
@@trevthekidd lol
You are so funny 😂 I knew a guy like that big bad dude looked like sasquatch never seen him run so fast in my life scared of a 7 inch snake I was chasing him and told him ok I'll stop but had to do it 7 times he lost weight that summer he he he ✌️😁💪😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 check out Disciple band with lyrics and the Shepherds chapel 🧐😁💪😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@trevthekidd equal rights and lefts lmao
@@setrasetra6577 they want equal pay, so they can get equal ones and twos 😂
I used to play with them as a kid, and just let them crawl on me. I absolutely love them.😂
im sure most people refer to cellar spiders as daddy long legs, not these legged sesame seeds.
Yep, I do. These big guys though are really cute, cellar spiders are just creepy to me. :(
Yes cellar spiders are evil 🙈
Yeah I think it has a lot to do with where you're from. Cellar spiders seem to be the prevalent daddy long legs based on the comments we're seeing here, though! It's fascinating how common animal names can apply to different animals!
@@AnimalFactFiles Mhm! The name is very much versatile for two types. Where I'm from cellar spiders are often, we just call them daddy long legs. (they sorta look like them, just *much* smaller.)
I knew they weren't harmful to us since I was a baby. I always picked them up and let them hang out on my arm. They are just so cute and small to me.
We always called them “daddy long leggers.” Actually they used to tell us that they were supposedly the most poisonous spider but were unable to bite us or it didn’t affect us so it didn’t matter! It’s pretty funny the stuff we grow up hearing and the stories that go along with it.
Yes definitely enjoyed this , learnt that daddy long legs live up to a year !! Didn't know that... Ty for ur vid :)))) and I will keep on looking after the world around me including the insect world:))))
So glad you enjoyed the video! =)
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Mate all that info was ok unless in Australia because we got baddy long legs that will f those other imposters up this dude dont know sh*t our spiders have webs fangs dont live together opisit to what this wombat said.
In Australia, the Daddy Long Legs is definitely a spider and its a crane fly in England. Though it is fascinating that so many countries have different creatures all named daddy long legs.
Of course they're spiders in Australia.
Pretty sure there's some sort of galactic rule that everything in Australia must be the most terrifying version of whatever it is.
@@GlenBixley you may want to start from the beginning of the video when watching… you might miss something otherwise.
@@LuckyFlesh
LOL from Australia !!
@@fireballfireball1067 Thank you!
The thing I know as daddy long legs on this side of USA is definitely a spider. I didn't know people called other things daddy long legs.
1975: Daddy Long Legs are cool!
1985: Daddy Long Legs are the most harmless spider on Earth!
1995: Daddy Long Legs are the most poisonous spider on Earth!
2005: Daddy Long Legs are not poisonous.
2015: Daddy Long Legs are not spiders.
I'm starting to think someone's bullshitting me...
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2021: Opiliones are cool!
Harvestmen are fascinating little guys, it's wild that there are so many arachnids and a couple insects that could be called "daddy long leg"
My mom taught me when I was just a toddler that daddy long legs were completely harmless and nothing to fear. I am grateful for that as I think it translated to not fearing spiders in general. I now live in western Washington where we have no venomous spiders or snakes, which is nice after Florida and South Georgia, both full of them, not to mention the alligators who were in a pond right be where I worked and lived.
We had alligators in the pond near where we lived too. One tried to climb our house once 💀
I'm pretty sure you may have hobo spiders in western Washington. Not to freak you out, but I would consider them a venomous spider.
I always considered them friendly as a kid, like ladybugs and bumblebees...
The urban myths I grew up with,are falling away...As a kid we thought it was a spider with a poisonous bite....Glad to know that those cute little weirdo critters are just victims of ignorance.🌹😇
All of my 70,plus years, I have encountered many Daddy long legs.
I was never bitten...I have also met many people...I was bitten often.. I survived...🙏☝️😇🌹
A great video!! I had no idea they weren't actually spiders.
It, admittedly, blew our minds, as well. ;)
@@besusbb On the move and has a round fat body = opiliones
Chilling upside down in a corner = cellar spider
@@fearless1024 *_c h i l l_*
@@fearless1024 Anne Frank=cellar human
@@besusbb u can easily tell the difference between a cellar spider and a daddy long legs
I remember growing up in Oklahoma, these things were all over the houses, especially in the shade of the front porch. We used to walk up quietly and then clap really loud. All of them would start bouncing up and down like they were dancing. Did anyone else do this as a kid?
I love these things; they're so incredibly peaceful and cute
They have short lives, and I feel like they only occasionaly manage to trap a meal! They are the epitome of house spider and keep those annoying gnats to a minimum.
@@drewlovelyhell4892 that's why when I see them I leave them be; they're ultimately doing better than worse!
@@7llininthedream Spiders are excellent. They keep us from being inundated with bugs! I am arachnopobic, but I apppreciate them.
I love them - I consider them my “plant fairies”.
Cute! 🐲
Wholesome
Honestly, they creep me out more than a lot of spiders do. I think it's the body shape. Just shows how irrational the fear is.
I was exploring silver mines in Murray Idaho when entering one cave. My father and I reached a point when flash lights were required I noticed the walls of the cave was covered in what looked like bear fir. But it was the lages of daddy long legs where using their legs to insulate them from the coming winter. They begin to move with the presents of our body heat. At this point we left promptly. The walls were covered floor to floor for as far as are flash lights could cee.
Sounds like a scene from a horror movie
@@Pointingtothereality at the time I thought so
I always end up finding an animal documentary and ill be thinking like “wow, that animal looks a lot like kangaroo!”; and then the narrator will say something like “Although this animas appearance could be mistake for kangaroos, they’re more closely related to giraffes”. And it sometimes kills my mood for some reason.
Harveestmen are more closely related to kangaroos than giraffes, so hopefully you'll feel better this time. :)
This was cool :)
I love having so many new weird facts about daddy longlegs to tell my friends
I love those funky little toothpick dudes
Oh god, I’ve been telling people for YEARS the myth about them being incredibly venomous… turns out I’ve been feeding them misinformation 😭
Well, in the beggining of the video there was a true spider shown that is also known as a daddy long legs. Those to have a very potent venom. I have both occuring where I live and it took some time to discern.
Bruh u just hear a random “crazy” fact and spread it around
@@maybehbabeh5217 How naive I have been, truly
Same here!
@@trickstrgod911 you could get a job in the media. You have the credentials bc of fake news lol. Nah I've heard it before in fact just today my boss said that so now I wanna show her this video lol.
Once, I was observing one as it crawled across my stomach. I was surprised when it dipped down and bit me. It felt much like the bite of an ant or a oriental lady bug beetle. But I survived with no harmful effects, so I would agree that granddaddy long legs aren't harmful to humans, just a tad unfriendly.
Have loved these guys since I was a child.
But some of the things we call daddy long legs are effectively spiders, notably the European variety that is effectively able to produce silk and have the significative waist
That's true! That's why at the beginning of the video we made the distinction that the name applies to lots of different animals! Thanks for watching!
A lot of people here in the States also use that term for Cellar Spiders, probably because they look similar at a quick glance. Those guys are harmless too though, in fact they're good to have around because they eat other spiders.
In Aus too if someone is taking about a daddy long legs, it almost certainly the cellar spider variety lol a lot of people get mislead by other people who state “daddy long legs aren’t spiders” because the spiders and harvestmen look so similar and in most cases the information source they obtained thier new knowledge from glosses over that fact so swiftly most fùckers miss it
@@ByrdWhiteMovie to bad daddys long legs dont exist in philippines because of their natural predator that seeks through darkness similar to daddys long legs but they have abdomens, they can be found almost anything as long as there are dust in places
@Night Stalker ⸸ we call them daddy long legs in the uk as well
I was today years old when I learned spiders can regrow limbs like a lizard...in a video about daddy long legs...which aren't spiders...
I dunno, it just never occurred to me that spiders could do that
@All Things Gulpable ??? They literally just commented something they learned. Chill LOL.
Honestly I didn't know either! Ya learn something new everyday eh? :3
i didn't notice that thats funny
I used to see them here all the time. I like the "hopping" motion they make when they stop walking around.
I used to work at a summer camp and my living quarters as well as the bathrooms and shower house were crawling with these guys. It wasn't uncommon to see dozens of them clumped together in a line all bouncing up and down in sync with one and another when you got close to them or shined a flashlight over them.
Oh yeah, I remember seeing them in the restrooms while camping (in a park of course. Otherwise it would have been a bucket and a bag, or just a shoveled hole). I never saw them bouncing up and down though. That sounds kind of adorable.
There movement now has me calling them boing boing bugs! Please try to find my other comment I left regarding this behavior. It is kind of long and I didn’t want to retype it. If there is a method of duplicating a comment I already made, could you please share it. Thanks.
@@stephenlongstreet8305 well, there is always copy and paste.
If you're on mobile, you can edit the comment, select all text then, copy, and back out from editing.
@@adamofblastworks1517 Thanks. Usually use my iPad, but will try your suggestion. Did you find my original comment?
@@stephenlongstreet8305 no, I think I was about to go to bed when I read your reply, and I've been busy since I got up.
You know growing up as a kid and northeast United States I never actually considered the fact that there's thousands of species. I only ever remember seeing one kind of daddy-long-legs and it was the kind you found on farms that ate harmful insects to the plants. I knew they were good for the environment and I was told that they were harmless but they were helpful so I left him alone. It just is mind blowing to me that I never considered them to be male female or having multiple thousands of different kinds and all over the world.. I guess I just always thought them as native to where I lived cause it's on my travels throughout Several countries I've never seen them anywhere else
Guess we blew your mind a little!
man they’re _the_ chillest spiders out there. crumb sized homies. they just go by their own business. it brings me a happy calmness to watch them bounce repeatedly on their webs or feast on a new catch. no doubt the only spider i fully respect
*1st scientist*
"Lets call this insect a long legs"
*2nd scientist*
"Nah not kinky enough"
Oh daddy long legs
*2nd Scientist gets bonked*
As someone with mild arachnophobia, Daddy long legs is one of the spiders I can't deal with. granted where I live there aren't that many dangerous spiders and I'm aware of how harmless they are. but the thing I hate most about spiders is their legs and Daddy long legs is the worst version of that.
Same. It actually triggers those feelings more than most spiders.
Interesting. I am Arachnophobic too, but Daddy Long Legs dont bother me. Neither do six legged bugs. But I have an instinctual aversion to Arachnids, and Moths too.
I like many others thought daddy long legs were the most venomous spiders. I didn't know they're not even spiders. Didn't know most of what's in this video. I feel a little smarter now. LOL. Thanks for clearing this up. Well done.
Glad you learned something new here
@@AnimalFactFiles I'm 70 and have learned much but not near all there is to know. I'll be watching more of your videos.
Fun fact. There is an actual spider that has the name "Daddy Long Legs" in many parts of the world. It's also called The Cellar Spider. This is the animal the myth about being super poisonous but has too short fangs is about ( also untrue.)
thats what i thought daddy long legs were until i found out there are 3 species with the same nicknames lmao
That's what I thought this video was going to be about. I've never seen these opiliones. Thank you for the clarification.
That's the one I know and love. I never heard of this opiliones.
so what species of daddy long legs whose diet consist of small or large insects including silverfish baby cockroaches or any kind of bug they devour.?
@@charliedelacruz9091 Both? Cellar Spiders and Harvesrmen both eat bugs. It's just the spiders catch them in webs and suck them dry and HM chase them down and chew them up.
They were everywhere in Ohio where I grew up. I know they aren't spiders, or poisonous, and that the males of some species care for the eggs, but everything else in the video was new. Thanks for teaching me so much today! 😁👍
So glad you learned something new!
1:17 I'll still think of it as a spider in the common way due to what it mainly eats, how it eats, how it behaves, where it resides, the segments of its body, number of legs, how it's mandible/eyes are poised, and its ecological behavior and niche...
... but the fact they eat fruit makes me now think of them in their own little category they deserves. Great video.
I use to see them alot in Oklahoma when I was a kid but I wasn't scared of them cuz my great grandmother told me they don't bite
Smart great grandma!
@@AnimalFactFiles I'm not scared of spiders cuz they bite but I'm scared of their body structure
I would see them when I was a kid in Houston as well, and I see them all over the place living in Oklahoma City now. Even saw a couple today both at home and at my job.
actually I think the thing about them being poisonous is to do with the Australian "daddy long legs" Pholcus phalangioides but they are also harmless
Yes ive got them in the room im in now. And their spiders with pray in their webs and fangs very tiny fangs but still. Its clear this dude didn't grow up here Mate. Daddy longlegs take out white tails im a big fan. Whats not to love ay.
Are the Australia spider "daddy long legs" exclusive to Australia or something?
EDIT: don't worry googled, the guy should have distinguished between the spider by the same name.
Anything native to Australia is automatically assumed to want to kill you, so....
@@Willow4526 Yeah he should have differentiated better and brought up the fact he wasn't talking about the Daddy-long-legs Spider in Aus which is actually a spider and can spin a web.
When I lived in New York, they were everywhere. It was a pretty common occurrence to see on running around the house, or outside
They’re also the only “spider” that doesn’t trigger my arachnophobia at all lol. Maybe it’s how they’re cute bumbling around on stilt legs and and don’t do that quick scurrying sudden stuff typical spiders do. And the no webs thing. Pretty much a spider without any of the creepy characteristics
For some reason we have a lot of those lil dudes in Warsaw. They are cute lil guys I always help them cross streets and sidewalks :)
Aww that's so sweet of you to help them out!!
@@AnimalFactFiles thanks
I've always known these as harvestmen, daddy long legs was too silly for me to take seriously
Ya Same, daddy long legs refers to actual spider species too where I’m from
This is very interesting! I've seen them all my life. In the intermountain area from what I can tell there is just one type but if there are more than 6600 of them I may have seen more. I'd never kill one, in fact I don't kill spiders. They kill mosquitoes and flies for goodness sakes!
Seems as though the algorithm has blessed this channel out of nowhere
It has 😭❤