Clearing up Confusion about Daddy Longlegs | Deep Look #Shorts

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[TheWhiteScatterbug]

Another useful way to distinguish them is that harvestmen's prosoma and opisthosoma (front & back body part) seem to be fused at first glance, giving them an oval body shape while in true spiders you can clearly see the separated front & back body part right away.

[Jieorgieee]

"Its a daddy long legs-"
"Hey daddy😏"

[YSLRD]

I let a baby one live in my bathroom one winter because it was too cold to put it outside. I named him Petey. Now I call them all Peteys.

[enderslime]

Harvestmen: lose a leg
Harvestmen: "tis but a scratch"

[GuineaPigWWE]

He really said "𝓓𝓪𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓵𝓮𝓰𝓼"

[DelightfulDissident]

Cellar Daddies as I call them are the only spider that is allowed to live in my California home. They're really good at setting up camp in handy places and controlling the fungus knats from my houseplants and any rogue mosquito, fly, or moth that finds a way in. I like that they stay in place for the most part. If the eating is good, they're chill. Plus when you disturb their web they don't run and hide like most they start vibin and shakin to scare me away 😄 I find it very funny and worthy of respect. Fortunately, the circle of life continues as they don't usually last long enough to become a pest issue because my cat has discovered once a certain size they're a juicy snack. Yes, I live in an indoor jungle of my making 😂

[amancalleddave.]

In England we call Crane flies Daddy longlegs too.

[ddenozor]

Here we call fathers with long ambulatory appendages ‘daddy longlegs’

[thechickenwizard]

It's kinda sad that this needed to be made, especially since a lot of this information was already conveyed in the original video.

[askjeevescosby]

You were ripping it's legs off. I don't think they care that it wasn't a spider they just wanted you to stop ripping it's legs off to show how it hopps when you mutilate it.

[meganlodon]

In the Southern states of the USA, I've always heard the Cellar spiders being called Daddy Longlegs and the Harvestmen being called Granddaddy Longlegs. That's also how the people I grew up with called them and what I called them when I was a kid. Now, as I've gotten older, I just call them Cellar spiders and Harvestmen. Although there are a lot of people that still have no idea that the Harvestmen are not spiders, and that information is more confusing to them than figuring out which Daddy Longleg you're talking about.

[julieduncan]

I was 56 years old when I learned that Daddy Long Legs are called Harvestmen. Shame on me! 😂

[robertdorman]

In Australia, the cellar spider is called daddy long legs.

[michigames]

Here in chile we called it in spanish ''araña cangrejo'' or ''arañas hediondas''
Here is a video of it (in spanish btw)

Random things:
Cangrejo: crab
Araña: spider
Hediondas: smelly

So is called
"Crab spider" or "smelly spider"

[nichole_null]

YOU’RE TELLING ME COMMON NAMES CAUSE CONFUSION

Okay Linnaeus….

[johannabrown]

You're preaching to the choir here! I grew up with Opiliones. They gathered in great fuzzy masses under our eaves. My mother was careful to show me the difference between them and spiders.
I've passed this information down to my own children, along with how to identify an insect spider.
We used to attempt to educate people as to the difference between Daddylonglegs and Cellar Spiders, to no avail. Most simply want to cling to their ignorance.

[TitenSxull]

As a kid I always thought they were spiders and was afraid of them, until one day I caught them eating melted ice cream out of the garbage can. Once I googled it and found out they're technically omnivorous and they're not spiders I was fascinated and much less creeped out by them.

[TheBlindPhotographer]

I grew up in Idaho we always called the harvestman the granddaddy long legs. And then for the cellar spider we just called them daddy long legs spiders.

[makinvidsschool]

Are we just going to ignore how that one daddy longlegs face planted?!

[CthulhuianBunny]

From Illinois, and I've called cellar spiders "daddy long legs" my whole life. I'd never even seen a harvestman that I could identify as one until I was in my 20's.