Who is Naming Daddy Long Legs?

Hilarious!
Sagemindsays...

HARVESTMEN
(Daddy Longlegs)
HARVESTMEN AREN'T SPIDERS

THE NAME
"HARVESTMAN"

Harvestmen are called harvestmen because they're most conspicuous in the fall, at harvest time!

If you look at the body of a Daddy-longlegs with your magnifying glass, you'll see why it's not a spider. First of all, instead of its body consisting of two parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen, as with spiders, there's just one thing. A Daddy Longlegs has its head, thorax, and abdomen all fused together. Second, instead of the spider's usual eight eyes, a Daddy Longlegs just possesses two.
-http://www.backyardnature.net/longlegs.htm

zombieatersays...

>> ^bamdrew:

Is it me or do they have more 'joints' in their legs, too?
>> ^zombieater:
I study these. For reals. Neotropical Opiliones ftw.



More joints than what? Their legs start with a coxae jointed to a femur to a patella to a tibia to a metatarsus to a bunch of tarsi... so yeah, they have a lot of joints I guess.

A lot of them are really pretty though: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=cosmetidae&m=text
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=gonyleptidae&m=text

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