The pantry in the basement was the 'safe room' in our house. Too many spiders there for me!

As spiders go, I think jumping spiders are adorable *promote

I find that adorable (cute spider) and gross (in your ear) at the same time.

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Spider jeep, spider jeep....

I looked it up last time around, and although I've never seen one apparently there are plenty of Opiliones here, but the ones we call daddy longlegs are Pholcus phalangioides, the spiders that live inside (and eat our less cuddly spiders). They aren't native to Australia, they were accidentally introduced from Europe.

I wouldn't personally describe either Opiliones or Crane fly as daddy longlegs, only the daddy longlegs spiders.

Reference - https://australianmuseum.net.au/daddy-long-legs-spider

Someone needs to get to the bottom of this! Are they are aren't they? I NEED TO KNOW!!

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Seems it depends on what you call a Daddy Longleg. "There is one "daddy-longlegs" that is a spider, and a couple of thousand species that are not spiders."
http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/myth-daddy-longlegs-kind-spider

Interesting, in Australia Daddy-long-legs are spiders.

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I'm too stoned to function properly, eh?

*dupeof=https://videosift.com/video/Portia-Spiders-Are-Capable-of-Learning-and-Problem-Solving

It's troubling to think that the only reason we are aren't diminutive eyeball monsters is due to a fluke of evolution.

Also, she is a dupe of this seemingly broken video.:

https://videosift.com/video/Portia-Spiders-Are-Capable-of-Learning-and-Problem-Solving

I want to hear the story of that other spider, the one unfortunate enough to hatch out on the downwind side of the stream. She has to patiently wait for some fortunate upwind spider, hatched with a silver spoon in her mouth, to waft a pilot web over. Then she jumps on it, and has to buffalo the other haughty spider off.

But no, no love for my spider at all.

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