Which do you call a daddy long legs? WARNING pics!

[catnapper]

The first one is what we always called a Daddy Long Legs... the second one is just a gross looking spider. Or at least in my neck of the woods.

I remember watching the Discovery channel once during their Arachnid week special (or something like that) and they covered the DDL and said that its NOT an arachnid (sp?) (for some reason, and now the whole concept escapes me!)

Running to discoverychannel.com to find out!

Edit.. one link about why DDLs aren't spiders.. I NKEW I'd watched something! But couldn't find it on discoverychannel.com

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content...cies/3700.html

The following link describes the differences between the two monsters we've been tlking about!
http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnolo...ylonglegs.html


PS: I've never heard the myth about Daddy Long Legs being poisonous. I was always taught they were totally harmless!