Wow. I really likie this photo. Very well done!

I like playing with harvestmen. They tickle. ^^

These are odd, and I know nothing about them. But it looks like it has a cute face, up there on its back.

question how are they different from regular spiders?
like lets say how different is it from a Wolf spider or a Black Widow.
as you can see I have much to learn bout the spidahs =3

Well for starters they have a body that is not divided into two distinct sections like a spider's. Also, they lack any kind of venom with which to kill prey. A further difference is that Harvestmen are omnivorous, feeding on both plant and animal matter, be it alive or dead. A popular urban myth claims that 'daddy long legs' (a nickname for these animals) have the most lethal venom of any arachnid but are incapable of delivering a harmful bite to humans. This is false in two respects; as mentioned above, they lack any venom at all, and second, the myth actually refers to a species of spider commonly called the 'cellar spider', which does have venom, but it is not medically significant to humans.

o___o You have absolutely no idea how thrilled I am to see that SOMEONE knows that 'daddy long-legs' CAN bite us, and AREN'T super-deadly. Thank you, thankyouthankyouTHANKYOU.

They actually had that on an episode of Mythbusters. I think they mentioned Harvestmen, but actually used cellar spiders. The hosts were visibly bitten by the spiders, but suffered no ill effects.

What do you think I told the others who disagreed with me to watch? :)

Did you know that harvestmen also have the ability to smell really bad which is their biggest defense against predators.

My animal biology teacher seemed really amused by that fact.

Yeah, kinda makes them like arachnid stink bugs. :P

Interesting I did not even there was a myth about the DDLong Legs, I used to play with those little guys a lot.
thank you so much for the cool info

Orca lays out out pretty good there. Many morphological and behavioral differences. :)

They are basically a ball with legs, where spiders have a separate butt section. Also no venom or anything.

is it just me or do they remind one of a cocoon with legs?
thanks for the info btw

photo is awesome btw

It's cute, like a little potato with legs.

i love these things! awesome pic

only two eyes?

Yes, only two eyes. A lot of arachnids have only two eyes.

oh wow.. i thought most had on average 4..

but yeah, i just let a pholcus phalangioides go yesterday.. lol i hope thats correct.. XD

I actually have two distinct species of these around my house; one with a leg span of around 2 1/2 to 3 inches with a white underside and tan & brown-patterned dorsal coloration & white stripes on the legs, and another one with a roughly 1 inch legspan with solid brown & black body & legs, respectively. The former tends to be more abundant, sometimes about a dozen or moreon one wall of my house alone. Another great photo, keep up the good work.

and so...he's the ''false spider''


he has no eyes...or his head is microscopic?? O_o

It has eyes. They're the black things on the top.

ah...holy guacamole!! it makes me puke!! (he's the only ''spider'' i hate)

Squueeeee! what an adorable little eye-turret!

Wait you don't have these things everywhere? My mom is deathy afraid of them.

*Throws pikmin at it's body*

I love harvestmen.

It's so cute! I've never seen one of these guys! I want one! lol

I swear I seen that before... anyway, nice picture, and I love its eye! Its like what someone else said, an eye turret!

They have another thing in common, they squish the same ^w^
Sorry, I just can't stand spiders or arachnids. Too icky =P

I never noticed how similar daddy long legs are to scorpions. I always assumed they were more closely related to spiders.

Mebbe we should introduce your American daddy-long-legs to my European daddy-long-legs (once they finish the ol' ooh-la-la) and see what happens. I imagine your harvestmen will end up with a smile on their odd little faces when filled up with a meal of crane-fly. :)

Superb, superb, SUPERB photograph as ever, Queue!

n.n Daddy long leg! I love those guys. <3 There's quite a population of them around here. The prettiest I've seen was black with orange markings.

he looks like a tick with spider legs. ahaha. and he looks easy to squish. >__>

<3 Un-spider.

You should come live at my place! I get easily twenty of these fellows coming into my house on a monthly basis. And that's just in my house. When I walk in my backyard, I'm so careful. They literally cover the ground. Eeeiiii they're adorable!

My ground is covered in wolf spiders instead.

Oh wow! Those buggers are cool, but -fast- x.X;

We caught an awesome wolf spider on Vancouver Island a few years back. It was sitting on a phonebook that had been delivered. It's legs almost didn't fit on the phonebook. It was like: "Ahhhh!" but "COOL!" at the same time XDD

Yikes. That almost sounds too big to be a wolf spider. Other likely candidates from Vancouver would be a fishing spider or giant house spider.

I like big spiders >_>

It very well could've been. They have such giant creatures in general on Vancouver Island. I found a giant slug too. It scared the shit out of me because I thought it was a wet twig (it was near black), and I went to pick it up. "Ahhhh" XD

Big spiders totally are cool >.> We should go take pictures of bugs over in B.C. Best. Trip. Ever!

I'd totally go to B.C. some time.

Daddy long legs XXD I used to have so many of these around my house XD Awesome picture :3

This is an amazing photo, and I just learned so much from previous comments XD Thank you for sharing!!

*murrrrrrrrrs* always loved their eyes. Only two of them. <3

Recently got another picture of a jumping spider, this time with a fly. I'll post it soon.

I love these spiders! ^^ I see a lot of them around my house

HOORAH, you haven't died!
And you've brought picture(s)! HOORAH!

Excellent photo, Queue.

i used to eat these as a child

lol

O.O Really?

How do they taste?

no wonder they creep me out >>

I like spiders but by some reason I never really liked this arachnid XD

I had Opiliones on my finals in Arachnology :)

awesome
my fave' of all spiders

Oh I used to love playing with these things (gently)! Their little eye-blister is so cool :D~<

for some reason those guys never seemed to have liked me...they run after to me if i was to close x3

so now i tend to stay away from them lol

They probably did like you. Because you are warm.

aww thats good ehe, i'll go near them now lol, if its heat their after i'll gently hold them in my hands lol

They're completely harmless so don't be scared of them :)

yep ehhe

only reason i was scared of spiders was when one of my mates forgot to feed their spider and it thought we were its dinner lol, saw its fangs and since than, i've been jumpy around spiders, only the ones that pop out of nowhere lol

lol you say they are different than spiders but again skimp on the details

What details do you need?

They aren't spiders. They don't have that much in common with spiders other than having 8 legs.

well i just figured since you'd bother to throw out the last part you'd put some examples

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones

Those are the little buggers that hang all over our house. ouo I always thought they were daddy longlegs. They're adorable little critters. <3

Daddy-long legs is a colloquial name often ascribed to these guys.

I try to avoid calling them that, since there are two other similar looking critters that are also often referred to as Daddy-long legs so I stick with the scientific name to keep there from being confusion! :)