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I came home today to see my typical caught this huge spider/daddy long-leg looking thing all on it's own haha. From the tip of one leg to another leg is about 8 or 9 inches. Even more impressive it was on a 3rd story apartment balcony.

That's a pretty good catch

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ATXflytraps wrote:I came home today to see my typical caught this huge spider/daddy long-leg looking thing all on it's own haha. From the tip of one leg to another leg is about 8 or 9 inches. Even more impressive it was on a 3rd story apartment balcony.

I guess it is a kind of 'Daddy Longlegs' Opiliones.
It is not a spider though it has 8 legs.


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That looks like probably what's referred to as a harvestman- it looks like a little round ball with really long legs. Not technically a spider, in fact they'll eat spiders.

They're the ones that supposedly have "the most venomous bite in the world but fangs too small to use it", but that's just a silly myth. They have very small fangs and very weak venom, as they mostly eat dead things with the occasional mini spider or gnat thrown in. Harmless to humans, just creepy.

Fishkeeper wrote:That looks like probably what's referred to as a harvestman- it looks like a little round ball with really long legs. Not technically a spider, in fact they'll eat spiders.

They're the ones that supposedly have "the most venomous bite in the world but fangs too small to use it", but that's just a silly myth. They have very small fangs and very weak venom, as they mostly eat dead things with the occasional mini spider or gnat thrown in. Harmless to humans, just creepy.

We call those Daddy Long Legs, funny how every region has a different nickname for things.

Haha wow! I bet that will take a while. I gave mine a fly and its still not done (3 days later).

Branmuffin wrote:

Fishkeeper wrote:That looks like probably what's referred to as a harvestman- it looks like a little round ball with really long legs. Not technically a spider, in fact they'll eat spiders.

They're the ones that supposedly have "the most venomous bite in the world but fangs too small to use it", but that's just a silly myth. They have very small fangs and very weak venom, as they mostly eat dead things with the occasional mini spider or gnat thrown in. Harmless to humans, just creepy.

We call those Daddy Long Legs, funny how every region has a different nickname for things.

Yea we call them daddy long legs here too I've just never seen a black and white one. They're always brown.

ncbetz wrote:Haha wow! I bet that will take a while. I gave mine a fly and its still not done (3 days later).

Usually takes about 7-10 days for them to process the insect's juices and then open back up leaving just the exoskeleton. I've never seen one eat something this big though so who knows what'll happen haha.

Branmuffin wrote:

Fishkeeper wrote:That looks like probably what's referred to as a harvestman- it looks like a little round ball with really long legs. Not technically a spider, in fact they'll eat spiders.

They're the ones that supposedly have "the most venomous bite in the world but fangs too small to use it", but that's just a silly myth. They have very small fangs and very weak venom, as they mostly eat dead things with the occasional mini spider or gnat thrown in. Harmless to humans, just creepy.

We call those Daddy Long Legs, funny how every region has a different nickname for things.

In Japanese their name is 'zatoumushi '.
Zatou is old Japanese class or job who were blind and walk with cane. they were masseurs or play music. Mushi means bug.

Funny name actually !


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It's a house centipede, isn't it? I hate those things.

House 'centipedes', which aren't actually centipedes, have a ton more legs and a much longer body. The thing caught in the photo looks like a round ball with legs, like a cartoon spider.