daddy longlegs

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These contraptions look like daddy longlegs with tiny hooks at each foot to hold them in place in the vein.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

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

I said that I wondered whether the daddy longlegs was a spider.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson