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Originally Posted by _Richard_
i am sure he'll be thrilled to find out they're not spiders
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When I saw your post, it caught me off guard because I've known them as a spider species my entire life. I just checked and there are two different species called daddy long legs.
"Most folks who retell this tale have no idea that they are referring to two completely separate groups of animals: "daddy-longlegs" and "daddy-longlegs spiders". In the animal class Arachnida, there are several lower level divisions called Orders. Scorpions are in the Order Scorpiones, spiders are in the Order Araneae, ticks and mites are in the Order Acari."