Big Daddy Long Legs Spider

Daddy long legs are supposedly pretty harmless spiders but when i saw this colony on the wall under the deck it looked like something out of a bad horror movie.

Big daddy long legs spider. Wow there were over 100 of these. They are a non aggressive group of spiders. Daddy long legs spiders are the common house spiders which can be easily distinguished by their exceptionally long legs as compared to the size of their body. Pholcids or daddy long legs spiders are venomous predators and although they never naturally bite people their fangs are similar in structure to those of brown recluse spiders and therefore.

Venom toxicity the bite of daddy long legs spider is not considered dangerous to human health. The larvae of crane flies are known commonly as leatherjackets. Crane flies which resemble large mosquitoes are sometimes called daddy longlegs as well. Long bodied cellar spiders are commonly referred to as daddy long legs because of their very long thin legs.

The common name daddy long legs is used for several species especially pholcus phalangioides but is also the common name for several other arthropod groups including harvestmen which are arach. Pholcidae commonly known as cellar spiders daddy long legs spider granddaddy long legs spider carpenter spider daddy long legger vibrating spider and skull spider is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by carl ludwig koch in 1850. Daddy longlegs spiders can range from 2 to 10 mm long but their legs can grow up to 50 mm according to the entomology department at pennsylvania state university. The female is slightly bigger.

They are also known as daddy longlegs around the world not to be confused with daddy long legs that refers to arachnids of the order opiliones or the family pholcidae. It is pale gray or tan and has banding or chevron markings. The daddy longlegs spider is the cellar spider. They belong to the family pholcidae which has about 80 genera and 1000 species.

Their fangs very small but may pierce human skin.