That trap feedbacker, garbi, summed up pretty well my thoughts after reading this thread... and Forbez, you are absolutely right. I'm sure tons of people have eaten spiders, either accidentally, or on a dare of something, and I have yet to read about a death from swallowing a daddy long legs.

As for the spiders (and I'm thinking of the cellar daddy long legs - cause that's the only ones that I've ever referred to as a daddy long legs before now) I never got near them before now, and I don't really plan to in the future. Spiders, whether or not they have or don't have venom that can hurt us are just plain gross.

But I did learn some interesting things from reading through all these posts, so I'm happy about that.

Not true it eats the black widow. They are enemies

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I remember reading somewhere that the average human beings swallows five to six spiders each year during their sleep. The spiders just crawl right in. (I hope I don't sleep with my mouth wide open. lol) Some people don't even consider daddy long legs as spiders because they don't look like your typical spider. Most spiders have fur on their legs, and you can see all of the eyes on its head. It really creeps me out. If I see a spider, I tend to steer clear of it or squish it. Where daddy long legs are so thin, they're almost hard to see. I don't recall, but are daddy long legs' legs set up like water bugs' legs where the knees bend the opposite way a human knee bends?

Nope, Daddy Long Leg poison doesn't do a thing to us, go on to Youtube and search Mythbusters Daddy Long Legs or something, you'll see


And they only have 6 legs, they ARE not spiders, they are opilionids.

This post has been edited by samlockart: Jun 24 2008, 10:53 PM

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How can people be allowed to blog the dumbest crap ever on the internet? Just because the Daddy Long Legs preys on the Black Widow, doesn't mean it is that venomous. Turns out, the recluse also has the same teeth as the Daddy Long Legs and they manage to do pretty well. The venom in DDL spiders is harmless to both humans and animals. Fail.

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Replying to hbk2006 That bug is actually a Mosquito eater, they do eat "they eat mosquitos, it is not a daddy long leg, but it does have long legs, and the do live for for more than one day. Let them live though because they eat the mosquito's. The daddy long leg is the most common house spider.

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