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FUCK THIS VIDEO

I just watched it, basically shit myself, turn around and see a FUCKING HUGE SPIDER behind me WTFFFFFFFF

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Originally Posted by Ch28 (Post 6951944)

Aren't daddy long legs harmless?

not really to humans, but i just saw a video of it owning a wolf spider 5 times it's size and then packed it up to save for later.

also i heard they're not actually spiders.

i'd like to light them on fire. the only thing i hate about spiders is walking through their cob webs when you don't see it

I got freaked out one time when I was driving, a spider dangled in front of me. That was pretty dangerous. Funny they always dangle in front of you.

That's fucking gross...

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Originally Posted by iRomey (Post 6952539)

UGHH. Despite the title, I still bothered to click on this thread... :facepalm:

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Originally Posted by Leopold Stotch (Post 6953195)

not really to humans, but i just saw a video of it owning a wolf spider 5 times it's size and then packed it up to save for later.

also i heard they're not actually spiders.

Link to video?

apparently wolf spiders don't make webs and they have eyes that can see at night.

damn spiders, can't stand them..

this thread is making me itchy

i found more Male are afraid of spiders than Female are for some odd reason..

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Originally Posted by Leopold Stotch (Post 6953195)

not really to humans, but i just saw a video of it owning a wolf spider 5 times it's size and then packed it up to save for later.

also i heard they're not actually spiders.

Interesting...

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Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones

Although they belong to the class of arachnids, harvestmen are not spiders, which are of the order Araneae rather than the order Opiliones.

The difference between harvestmen and spiders is that in harvestmen the two main body sections (the abdomen with ten segments and cephalothorax, or prosoma and opisthosoma) are broadly joined, so that they appear to be one oval structure; they also have no venom or silk glands. In more advanced species, the first five abdominal segments are often fused into a dorsal shield called the scutum, which is normally fused with the carapace. Sometimes this shield is only present in males.

Harvestmen do not have silk glands and do not possess venom glands, posing absolutely no danger to humans (see below).

The legs continue to twitch after they are detached. This is because there are 'pacemakers' located in the ends of the first long segment (femur) of their legs. These pacemakers send signals via the nerves to the muscles to extend the leg and then the leg relaxes between signals. While some harvestman's legs will twitch for a minute, other kinds have been recorded to twitch for up to an hour. The twitching has been hypothesized as a means to keep the attention of a predator while the harvestman escapes.

An urban legend claims that the harvestman is the most venomous animal in the world, but possesses fangs too short or a mouth too round and small to bite a human and therefore is not dangerous (the same myth applies to the cellar spider and cranefly, which are both also called a 'daddy longlegs').[4] This is untrue on several counts. None of the known species have venom glands; their chelicerae are not hollowed fangs but grasping claws that are typically very small and definitely not strong enough to break human skin. This myth is so pervasive that it was debunked by two popular television shows, MythBusters and "Bill Nye The Science Guy".