Arachnophobia anyone? - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

pitbulllady · 09-30-2008, 05:15 AM

The "Daddy Long-Legs" here in the US aren't spiders, and the ones in Europe aren't even arachnids, but insects, what WE call a "Mosquito(or "skeeter") Hawk" here in the US, since they look like huge, leggy mosquitoes, and actually hunt the little(or not-so-little)vampires and eat them. The "Daddy Long-Legs" in Australia IS a spider, but a harmless one, and not because it can't bite, either. It can sure kill another much-larger spider, like a Wolf Spider, and its fangs are actually quite impressive, so I'm sure it would have no trouble biting a human IF it wanted to, that is. I've held large specimens cupped in my hand, without being bitten, and if a spider had a good reason to bite, that would probably be it, yet I've never had one bite or even give a threat display.

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09-30-2008, 05:15 AM	#27
pitbulllady Co-Administrator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 2,276	The "Daddy Long-Legs" here in the US aren't spiders, and the ones in Europe aren't even arachnids, but insects, what WE call a "Mosquito(or "skeeter") Hawk" here in the US, since they look like huge, leggy mosquitoes, and actually hunt the little(or not-so-little)vampires and eat them. The "Daddy Long-Legs" in Australia IS a spider, but a harmless one, and not because it can't bite, either. It can sure kill another much-larger spider, like a Wolf Spider, and its fangs are actually quite impressive, so I'm sure it would have no trouble biting a human IF it wanted to, that is. I've held large specimens cupped in my hand, without being bitten, and if a spider had a good reason to bite, that would probably be it, yet I've never had one bite or even give a threat display. pitbulllady