Daddy long legs
Opiliones are colloquially known by the name "daddy longlegs" or "granddaddy longlegs", but this name is also used for two other unrelated arthropods: the crane fly (Tipulidae) and the cellar spider (Pholcidae). They are also referred to as "shepherd spiders" in reference to how their unusually long legs reminded observers of the ways that some European shepherds used stilts to better observe their wandering flocks from distance.
Know more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
As a general rule, the granddaddy longlegs is the only spider I can take without great revulsion, but that's a bit excessive...
ReplyDeleteFirst thought...do not touch it!
ReplyDeleteSecond...RUNNNNNNNNN
On yes this triggers a few primal fears in me
ReplyDeleteCool and creepy! Rumor is that these spiders are actually very poisonous but they can't break the skin making them harmless. Any truth to this?
ReplyDeleteYes...why in the world I'd want to sleep tonight? creepy bugs invading my brain
ReplyDeleteI may need to get the single malt again, I can sleep in after all tomorrow ;)
ReplyDeleteNot these ones John Cassone , these are the harvestman. They're not poisonous, they detach their legs, which keep on moving, to confuse predators..or vibrate their bodies, so shake it up =)
ReplyDeleteOh...I need to go to a "party" also. More like I have to show off and play piano for some humans. Or I could drink some champagne again and go to bed, hehe
ReplyDeleteYou guys are funny - bugs don't creep me out at all. (Except wasps and bees which do - prolly because I've been stung so many times.) I'm surprised bugs get to you Corina Marinescu because you post a fair number items about them and because you are well acquainted with and inured to gucky human innards etc. :)
ReplyDeleteYou are destroying my image of a steely nerved, dark Dr Marinsecu (aka Corina Frankenstein).
I think champagne and bed doesn't sound bad at all, Corina Marinescu can you add a good book?
ReplyDeleteDear Sean Walker we are not talking about one bug here...that's an entire generation ;))
ReplyDeleteI could see them running everywhere ...ugh skin itchy. Do not forget those creeps are blind so they go in all the directions ...I'd still climb in a tree or something, haha
Dirk Reul - Almost an ideal picture, but let's add some dark chocolate! ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm out, Sean Walker r but for the sake of the fantasy, yes dark chocolate would go very nice with it :)
ReplyDeleteUmmmm... I'm reading 'Strangers to ourselves: the adaptive unconscious'. This book is not going to put me to sleep.....more I'll start to analyze my amygdala and eat tiramisu, which would mean.. in the morning I'll have to abuse my body and go for a long run.
ReplyDeleteUgh..I hate how everything is connected =)
But you can hear the tiramisu calling you softly but passionately...
ReplyDeleteahaha! lol For some reason the image I saw initially was static and when I scrolled back to it I suddenly saw the pile of daddy longlegs go scrambling after the poke. Cool! ;)
ReplyDeleteYes..I need to be saved from my tiramisu obsessed brain.
ReplyDeleteAppreciating tiramisu is never dysfunctional, it's always about good taste. Also, your cheekbones strongly suggest that your good taste isn't impacting your waste line - so have at it!
ReplyDeleteIf you pull all the legs off except one, it will spin in a circle. At least the last time I checked many, many years ago.
ReplyDeleteJim Allen I believe that makes you a sadist. O_o
ReplyDeleteSean Walker I was an enthusiastic child willing to experiment, not sadistically but to save the planet from being taken over by grandaddy longlegs.
ReplyDeleteInsane!
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