daddy longlegs

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If there’s one defining trait of daddy longlegs, it has to be their legs.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2021

But it was nothing to be afraid of, they were daddy longlegs.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2019

“We’d always capture daddy longlegs and put them on our arms, and we’d make mud puddles,” said Marcy Felch.

From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2018

Often, the best I could hope for was a damp cinder block structure filled with daddy longlegs.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2015

“Certainly. Flies, bugs, grasshoppers, choice beetles, moths, butterflies, tasty cockroaches, gnats, midges, daddy longlegs, centipedes, mosquitoes, crickets—anything that is careless enough to get caught in my web. I have to live, don’t I?”

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White