@@AnimalFactFiles are they the same with the ones found inside the house? We have here ones with webs and food residues that looked like finished lunches.
They are pretty cute. Yesterday I saved one which was at my house and I almost stepped on it. I took it outside and put it on grass. It was climbing up my arm and it was pretty cool how it was "feeling out" its surroundings with the long legs. Also it tickled a lot! They're totally harmless and quite innocent creatures.
Raised on a small farm, I remember my Grandfather telling us that Granddaddy Long Legs were not dangerous and not to kill them because they eat bugs. As I grew up I couldn’t believe how many people told me that Granddaddy Long Legs were a highly venomous spider and to stay away from them. I’m so glad you posted this video.
When I was little we would get millions of them clumped together on the back porch. It's kind of mesmerizingly hypnotic watching them all bounce in unison.
I always thought that they were "spiders" since they do _look_ like them; but I _never_ thought that they were "venomous" at all, but I still wouldn't want one crawling on me because they slightly creep me out especially the bigger ones.
My grandpa had them all over his sheds and he said they were doing the world good so he left them for me to admire. Now he's gone but I still love their beady little eyes. They're kinda cute.
As a child living in New Orleans there was an old steam locomotive on display. It was covered in large Daddy Long legs and you could let the climb all over you. They were friendly and liked people.
This was genuinely informative. I was one of those people who grew up with the myth that they were highly venomous spiders that simply can't harm us due to having very small fangs...or something stupid along those lines. Now I learned they're not even spiders lol
well like he mentioned near the start of the video, you may have been looking at a spider as there is a species of spider that is also called daddy long legs
@@huonsmith yes the actual Daddy's Long Legs spider is also called Cellar Spider, are very small with long thin legs. They often hang out in dark corners of bathrooms and basements. They will hang from there web and spin like a pendulum to confuse insects and hide. Of course not at all dangerous to humans and should be left alone as they eat more dangerous spiders like Brown Recluse.
I’ve always loved these little guys. As a child, my brothers and I found some in our basement and my dad taught us about how they are harmless to people. He let one crawl on his arm and said it tickled, so I wanted to try. After that, I considered them our little friends!
Nice. They have a weird tickle because their legs are a really light touch, but then they keep slamming their body into you, especially when they stop moving. I've seen them do this a lot in cracks, tucking their bodies right down and spreading their legs along lines in their surroundings.
I’m 37 years old and just now learned this. I used to play with them all the time and was told they were the most poisonous spider in the world but to small to bite a human. Crazy
Thank you for this video. Great information. I've got everyone beat. I'm 64. It seems like everyday I learn a new truth. It also seems everyday people attempt to force several blatant lies upon everyone else. Educate do not indoctrinate.
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I've always been fascinated by Daddy long legs as a kid. My mom and dad said that they are a benefit to have around because they help by getting rid of invasive bugs that could harm the gardens. Couple of times while taking showers there were a couple of them and I gently picked them up and put them outside.
When i was in Kindergarden a "Weberknecht" (the German term for Daddy Long Legs which roughly translates to weavers servant probably because they liked the workshop of a weaver in the old days) scared me really bad so i always avoided them at all costs from then on until i was a teenager, from that moment on the fear turned into fascination mainly because i learned back then that they can't harm me even if they wanted to. Now i am a 38 year old man who stops working in his garden when i see one of these funny looking fellows and always snap at least one picture of them. Just today I observed two of them on the outside of my old wooden garage doors, for some reason they like to just sit there and chill. Perfect for taking pictures of them. :) PS: It's also really nice of them to never come inside my house. They stay in the garden where they belong. I like spiders and insects but not inside my home please.
I remember seeing a lot of them chillin' on walls and ceilings at my grandma's house. Since it was a cow farm (which tends to attract lots of flies) is probably why they thrived there. The largest ones were about 1 cm in length and .5 cm in thickness, but their legs were just unbelievably long. I often wandered how in the world can they walk when each leg was like 4 to 5 inches in length.
Are you sure it wasn’t cellar spiders you saw on the walls and ceilings of your grandma’s house? They look similar but they are different animals, though both are often called daddy longlegs. Cellar spiders are actual spiders and often build webs in people’s homes whereas harvestmen usually crawl on the ground outside.
@@bj0rnen I've seen them in the yard, the house, on walls (inside and out) on trees, on me but they don't normally stay there long when I feel them walking.
As a kid from Kentucker, I actually thought they were spiders. But despite my arachnophobia, even as a kid they never scared me. They looked weird, yes, but everyone in my family knew these bois were surprisingly docile. I never had the fear of getting bit by these boys.
We have them clinging to the walls outside our house. Just plain gray-ish brown ones. Usually just sitting alone in one spot for days and never in groups. There'd been a guy on TV some time ago, discussing how they were not even related to spiders, but closer related to scorpion if anything. He flipped out over a pale red-brown variety he found somewhere on a building, saying it was very uncommon. I saw a red-brown one outside our wall a few weeks ago and thought about that for half a sec. 🤷♂️ ᵒᵏ
Oh hey, fancy seeing you here. Come to think of it, it's been quite a while since I've seen any daddy long legs around my house, but we used to see at least a couple of them all of the time when I was a kid. I wonder why they stopped showing up more recently.
I love daddy long legs, they’re one of my favorite bugs because they look really cool and funny looking, they have a cool name, they eat bugs that I don’t like, and they cuddle together in bunches and are really social unlike most arachnids, that’s just so endearing to me
As kids, for some reason we never wanted to step on them. They seemed to be just calmly passing by, so we got out of their way. Thanks for the information, you learn something new every day.
I never looked at these things too closely when I was a kid, so the fact that they have a tiny little nub with two eyes on either side poking out of the top of their head is both hilarious and slightly disturbing
That's just what the Harvestmen tell us. The cellar spiders say its the crane flies. And the crane flies argue its the Harvestmen. The propaganda war continues...
I still hear kids say daddy long legs are venomous, but their mouths are too small to bite human skin so they can't hurt us. I also keep having to tell people that crane flies are not giant, mutant mosquitoes.
No, it isn't. It's a myth told all over the US, while the use of "daddy long legs" to refer to basement spiders is restricted to a small part of the US on the west coast.
The myth about cellar spiders being the most venomous is because cellar spiders eat other spiders so presumably they would need a really strong venom. I purposefully let them flourish in my garage because they control the black widow and brown recluse populations. Black widows are the most annoying of all spiders. Always making nests right where you put your hands on things.
My parents would always tell us that Daddy Long Legs are harmless, very docile, and helpful with keeping bugs like flies away and so we shouldn’t kill them. They are one of the few bugs I don’t fear or try to actively kill if one ends up in my house.
I tried this for a time. I saw one on the wall and thought I'd let it live for once, since it could help with other pests. A couple of days later I saw a small fly mocking it, even briefly tapping on it while the long legs didn't do as much as move. I got rid of it not long after
"They are one of the few bugs I don’t fear or try to actively kill if one ends up in my house." I'm curious as to what the other bugs are that you let live.
Awwwwwww, Daddy Longlegs are actually involved in their offspring’s life. Cute! (Also, the variation of the venomous harvester myth I heard as a kid was that they indeed are highly venomous, but their mouths are so impossibly tiny that they can’t pierce a human’s skin)
@@RuanAntunes7 Crabs are just as much insects as spiders are, which is to say, not at all. Also they're all arthropods so yes actually, you CAN make that comparison.
i love Daddy Longlegs. My parents always told me they were harmless to us, and were super docile, and even if they wanted to bite us, their fangs were too small to do anything so, we had nothing to fear with them. Some of those were misconceptions they also probably beleived, but the overall message of them being no danger to us taught me and my brothers to feel comfortable and safe around them with no reason to harm them. they're cute too, i loved finding one and playing with it as a kid, then letting it go after a few minutes so it go kill those bastard mosquitoes XD
@@stephenmartinez1 the only common insect that had a nasty smell i experienced were lady bugs. Never had any aromatic experience with these lil buddies.
@@stephenmartinez1 I'd let them crawl on my hands. As long as you don't pinch or pick them up by their legs, they won't release the stinky Chemical. Same with stinkbugs, which I find to have a very interesting behavior. They're highly alert and aware of their surroundings.
I'm fairly certain they don't have fangs at all, but more so pincers like scorpions but are really small, so small they get mistaken for fangs. They use those pincers kinda like crabs use theirs to bring food up to their mouths.
I have always loved Daddy Long Legs! I used to catch them in my hands and let them crawl around on me when I was a kid. They would let me stroke their legs. Very nice little animals! I also loved to catch and play with frogs too. 😎
I remember once in the summer we had a party outside and spilled some Doritos. In the early morning i went outside to clean up and i saw a daddy longlegs dragging off a tiny piece of Dorito.
Don't know where you come from...but crane flies where called daddy long legs and dragon flies and it stressed me out as a kid as it does now as an adult. Oh my god. 😂
Welp, pretty sure I've been calling "Cellar Spiders" Daddy long legs my entire life. Didn't know Opiliones existed, all the long legs I've seen made webs.
Just to clear up some confusion. As mentioned at the beginning of the video, there are at least *three* different animals that share the common name "daddy long legs": -cellar spiders (family Pholcidae) --> video on them here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ls45yelmXKY.html -crane flies (family Tipulidae) --> video on them here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2RF6iyrwAeU.html -harvestmen (order Opiliones) *the animals featured in this video* Cellar spiders _are_ spiders and _do_ make webs and _do_ have venom. They are able to bite people but their bite is not dangerous to humans. Crane flies are insects. They do not produce venom and they are harmless to humans. Sometimes people call them "male mosquitoes". Opiliones, which are featured in this video, are arachnids but not spiders. Other arachnids include scorpions, mites, ticks, etc. Opiliones do not have fangs, do not produce venom, and are harmless to humans. Hopefully that helps clear some stuff up! Thank you all for watching and commenting!
Person 1: Omg look at that spider it has long legs, what should we call it? Person 2: How about 'Long legs'? Person 1: Sounds good. Person 3: ......make it *Kinkier*
This video just told you that they aren't spiders. But perhaps it doesn't matter since you were talking about naming them and then they might have been thought to be spiders
Lol, i love watching them just bop along. I find them around the old junk we got. They are pretty funny to watch. I remember seeing one come out and like mach 100, just abuzzing along
I have watched these Opilliones for years, and thought they were social, since they seemed to hang out together when outside. I thought they were poisonous, but had no fangs and only hurt animals that ate them I always left them be, or moved them because they were beneficial predators like preying mantis.
@@Ujuani68 venom is a toxin that is injected into the blood, usually via fangs, while poison is a toxin that needs to be ingested and eaten, so animals can be poisonous or venomous, but plants can only be poisonous on the account of… having no teeth
I have seen a large grouping of daddies "harvestment" in person a couple of times and even as someone who likes the creepy-crawly things, it's pretty freaky.
Bruh there just like black ants crawling on to you but doesnt bite huh, since daddy long legs dont exist in philippines because of the predator that hunts them lurking in the darkness of dust similar to daddys long legs they are small and have abdomens.
My grandfather taught me that killing one brought bad luck, much to the dismay of my parents. Any time we found one in the house, I forbade them from killing it and would pick it up and set it in a spot where they wouldn't get to it.
My mom taught me when I was just a toddler that daddy long legs were completely harmless and nothing to fear. I am grateful for that as I think it translated to not fearing spiders in general. I now live in western Washington where we have no venomous spiders or snakes, which is nice after Florida and South Georgia, both full of them, not to mention the alligators who were in a pond right be where I worked and lived.
For my family when we talked about daddy long legs we were referring to cellar spiders. So it was always extra confusing to me when people would say they are not spiders. Cuz cellar spiders totally are. The I figured out they meant harvestmen.
Same here, I was taught to leave the little spiders alone too. Not a big issue for me since I have a fear of touching spiders (very specifically touching, can't even touch pictures), even the harmless and cute ones. But I still liked watching the cellar spiders do their thing, I'd even catch bugs to feed them so I could watch them eat. I've always wondered if the "mountain tarantulas" we had were wolf spiders or just a large jumping spider. I remember them being a vivid iridescent green and black color, sometimes with white stripes, and hairy. They were bigger than most spiders in the area, with just the widows really being bigger, but way smaller than any other tarantula i've seen, and I've never been able to find a picture that looks like the ones we had. I loved them dearly despite being terrified they'd jump on me, they were so active and curious about their world. I rarely saw them do threat displays when interacting with me, more like fakeout charges and just evading me looking at them. I'd love to keep them as pets, they're gorgeous.
@@Kirhean your description sounds like a large jumping spider, I've never heard of an iridescent wolf spider! Jumping spiders are the good guys. Cellar spiders are too, but they don't want to be your friend like jumping spiders do.
Yes definitely enjoyed this , learnt that daddy long legs live up to a year !! Didn't know that... Ty for ur vid :)))) and I will keep on looking after the world around me including the insect world:))))
Mate all that info was ok unless in Australia because we got baddy long legs that will f those other imposters up this dude dont know sh*t our spiders have webs fangs dont live together opisit to what this wombat said.
I've been seeing Daddy Long Legs all my life. I had wondered why I'm not afraid of them when I'm afraid of spiders. This video cleared things up for me and thanks to it, I now know that they're not spiders, which explains why I don't get nervous whenever I see them.
You can literally not walk outside without seeing them hanging on the side of our house or tromping across the driveway here in Alaska. They just exist and we let them lol
I remember going to Arkansas and driving way out into the woodsy forest area. Just looking into the tree lines you could see hundreds all over the trees and crawling around the ground.
As a landscaper, I'm constantly swatting these off, but I never feel compelled to kill them. The sensation of them on your skin is creepy. I'm glad they're toothless.
The urban myths I grew up with,are falling away...As a kid we thought it was a spider with a poisonous bite....Glad to know that those cute little weirdo critters are just victims of ignorance.🌹😇 All of my 70,plus years, I have encountered many Daddy long legs. I was never bitten...I have also met many people...I was bitten often.. I survived...🙏☝️😇🌹
Biggest guy in school that honestly scared everyone due to his size and how he acted turned into the biggest screaming little girl when I put one on his shoulder without warning. He never scared anyone ever again. It actually didn't hurt his rep though ... He made a ton of friends after that. Just made people realize he was not a big scary guy. Just a big scaredy guy 😂 You're welcome Robert!!!!!
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Ah the ole Daddy Long Legs "Spider" I remember hearing the myth as a nipper that they be the most poisonous animal on the planet, but their wee fangs just couldn't pierce human skin.😂🕷💚
They have short lives, and I feel like they only occasionaly manage to trap a meal! They are the epitome of house spider and keep those annoying gnats to a minimum.
Well, in the beggining of the video there was a true spider shown that is also known as a daddy long legs. Those to have a very potent venom. I have both occuring where I live and it took some time to discern.
@@trickstrgod911 you could get a job in the media. You have the credentials bc of fake news lol. Nah I've heard it before in fact just today my boss said that so now I wanna show her this video lol.
In Australia, the Daddy Long Legs is definitely a spider and its a crane fly in England. Though it is fascinating that so many countries have different creatures all named daddy long legs.
Of course they're spiders in Australia. Pretty sure there's some sort of galactic rule that everything in Australia must be the most terrifying version of whatever it is.
I remember growing up in Oklahoma, these things were all over the houses, especially in the shade of the front porch. We used to walk up quietly and then clap really loud. All of them would start bouncing up and down like they were dancing. Did anyone else do this as a kid?
But some of the things we call daddy long legs are effectively spiders, notably the European variety that is effectively able to produce silk and have the significative waist
A lot of people here in the States also use that term for Cellar Spiders, probably because they look similar at a quick glance. Those guys are harmless too though, in fact they're good to have around because they eat other spiders.
In Aus too if someone is taking about a daddy long legs, it almost certainly the cellar spider variety lol a lot of people get mislead by other people who state “daddy long legs aren’t spiders” because the spiders and harvestmen look so similar and in most cases the information source they obtained thier new knowledge from glosses over that fact so swiftly most fùckers miss it
@@ByrdWhiteMovie to bad daddys long legs dont exist in philippines because of their natural predator that seeks through darkness similar to daddys long legs but they have abdomens, they can be found almost anything as long as there are dust in places
I used to work at a summer camp and my living quarters as well as the bathrooms and shower house were crawling with these guys. It wasn't uncommon to see dozens of them clumped together in a line all bouncing up and down in sync with one and another when you got close to them or shined a flashlight over them.
Oh yeah, I remember seeing them in the restrooms while camping (in a park of course. Otherwise it would have been a bucket and a bag, or just a shoveled hole). I never saw them bouncing up and down though. That sounds kind of adorable.
There movement now has me calling them boing boing bugs! Please try to find my other comment I left regarding this behavior. It is kind of long and I didn’t want to retype it. If there is a method of duplicating a comment I already made, could you please share it. Thanks.
@@stephenlongstreet8305 well, there is always copy and paste. If you're on mobile, you can edit the comment, select all text then, copy, and back out from editing.
1:17 I'll still think of it as a spider in the common way due to what it mainly eats, how it eats, how it behaves, where it resides, the segments of its body, number of legs, how it's mandible/eyes are poised, and its ecological behavior and niche... ... but the fact they eat fruit makes me now think of them in their own little category they deserves. Great video.
1975: Daddy Long Legs are cool! 1985: Daddy Long Legs are the most harmless spider on Earth! 1995: Daddy Long Legs are the most poisonous spider on Earth! 2005: Daddy Long Legs are not poisonous. 2015: Daddy Long Legs are not spiders. I'm starting to think someone's bullshitting me...
When I was a kid I lived in Wisconsin. I used to play with the Daddy Long Legs by picking them up gently or letting them walk on my hands. I would cry if they dropped their leg and ran away.
Once, I was observing one as it crawled across my stomach. I was surprised when it dipped down and bit me. It felt much like the bite of an ant or a oriental lady bug beetle. But I survived with no harmful effects, so I would agree that granddaddy long legs aren't harmful to humans, just a tad unfriendly.
Fun fact. There is an actual spider that has the name "Daddy Long Legs" in many parts of the world. It's also called The Cellar Spider. This is the animal the myth about being super poisonous but has too short fangs is about ( also untrue.)
@@charliedelacruz9091 Both? Cellar Spiders and Harvesrmen both eat bugs. It's just the spiders catch them in webs and suck them dry and HM chase them down and chew them up.
Here in Willamette Valley Oregon, Harvestman are common. I encourage people to protect them as they do a service in our homes, catching small insects. Grew up with them around, the one spider that doesn't give me chills when it crawls on me. Like your channel
I was exploring silver mines in Murray Idaho when entering one cave. My father and I reached a point when flash lights were required I noticed the walls of the cave was covered in what looked like bear fir. But it was the lages of daddy long legs where using their legs to insulate them from the coming winter. They begin to move with the presents of our body heat. At this point we left promptly. The walls were covered floor to floor for as far as are flash lights could cee.
I always end up finding an animal documentary and ill be thinking like “wow, that animal looks a lot like kangaroo!”; and then the narrator will say something like “Although this animas appearance could be mistake for kangaroos, they’re more closely related to giraffes”. And it sometimes kills my mood for some reason.
I was today years old when I learned spiders can regrow limbs like a lizard...in a video about daddy long legs...which aren't spiders... I dunno, it just never occurred to me that spiders could do that
You know growing up as a kid and northeast United States I never actually considered the fact that there's thousands of species. I only ever remember seeing one kind of daddy-long-legs and it was the kind you found on farms that ate harmful insects to the plants. I knew they were good for the environment and I was told that they were harmless but they were helpful so I left him alone. It just is mind blowing to me that I never considered them to be male female or having multiple thousands of different kinds and all over the world.. I guess I just always thought them as native to where I lived cause it's on my travels throughout Several countries I've never seen them anywhere else
I would see them when I was a kid in Houston as well, and I see them all over the place living in Oklahoma City now. Even saw a couple today both at home and at my job.
They were everywhere in Ohio where I grew up. I know they aren't spiders, or poisonous, and that the males of some species care for the eggs, but everything else in the video was new. Thanks for teaching me so much today! 😁👍
Yes ive got them in the room im in now. And their spiders with pray in their webs and fangs very tiny fangs but still. Its clear this dude didn't grow up here Mate. Daddy longlegs take out white tails im a big fan. Whats not to love ay.
Are the Australia spider "daddy long legs" exclusive to Australia or something? EDIT: don't worry googled, the guy should have distinguished between the spider by the same name.
@@Willow4526 Yeah he should have differentiated better and brought up the fact he wasn't talking about the Daddy-long-legs Spider in Aus which is actually a spider and can spin a web.
They’re also the only “spider” that doesn’t trigger my arachnophobia at all lol. Maybe it’s how they’re cute bumbling around on stilt legs and and don’t do that quick scurrying sudden stuff typical spiders do. And the no webs thing. Pretty much a spider without any of the creepy characteristics
I like Daddy Long Leggs, and never bother them when they're around the outside of our house. They're peaceful, don't try to crawl on you, jump at you, or get into the house. And they eat ants. I consider them little pest guardians for our home, and they are kinda cute in a way. ❤
bruh you have it lucky with your residence of them. the ones around here have crawled on me, and tried to crawl on me many times before. they are all around my room. and the only thing they eat is each other, even tough there are other bugs they could eat with relative ease. and for some reason i allways been extremely disgusted and afraid of them, so as you can imagine i do not appraciate their presence. man, i HATE them. i want them dead, gone. but i am also afraid of even making contact with a dead one, honestly it being dead makes it worse when it comes to having to touch it.
@@ProfessionalHumanTrash my friend if you ever had a stinkbug or cockroach infestation you'd quickly realize that you were lucky just to have harvestmen. At least harvestmen don't fly or produce a foul odor, i'd much rather have 10 harvestmen in my kitchen than a single cockroach or stinkbug. (cockroaches are obviously worse than stinkbugs but if you've ever dealt with stinkbugs you'd never loathe another insect more)
Never seen a group of them! But when I was a kid I would play with them and I remember them letting off this weird smell! I can still remember that smell. Glad to know I wasn't tripping this whole time. Smells like artificial peach flavor!!!
man they’re _the_ chillest spiders out there. crumb sized homies. they just go by their own business. it brings me a happy calmness to watch them bounce repeatedly on their webs or feast on a new catch. no doubt the only spider i fully respect
Theres also a type of fly that has gotten the term as well. Funny thing is the term is used for many species that arent spiders but only one species we use it for is an actual spider, AKA the cellar spider.
This is very interesting! I've seen them all my life. In the intermountain area from what I can tell there is just one type but if there are more than 6600 of them I may have seen more. I'd never kill one, in fact I don't kill spiders. They kill mosquitoes and flies for goodness sakes!
