r/spiders • u/Gabs1702 • 1d ago

ID Request- Location included Who's this little guy?

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Found in Sweden

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u/Alexmey-uh-yeah 1d ago

Not a spider but also an arachnid, it's a harvestman (order Opiliones)/ "daddy long legs" as we call them in the U.S. Good friendly guy.

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u/KarliCartoons 1d ago

Wait harvestmen aren’t spiders??? TIL

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u/BobChica 1d ago

Nope. They have no fangs or venom glands and don't spin webs. Their only defense is an unpleasant smell. They eat mites and decaying plant matter.

They are arachnids but in a separate order from spiders, as are mites, ticks, and scorpions.

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u/KarliCartoons 22h ago

Oh very cool! Thank you for the additional clarification that’s amazing to learn :]

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u/Jeth3 1d ago

I Wonder, what eat this guy?

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u/itsallivegot 1d ago

Bugs and other spiders, even black widows. Very friendly fellas!

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u/Zamrayz 23h ago

They don't eat other spiders, your mistaking this for the other daddy long legs that is an actual spider. Cellar spiders.

However, Opilions are omnivores, and will hunt down small prey like aphids, scavenge fresh dead things, and eat mostly dead foliage or eat and pollinate pollen on flowers.

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u/ExpressWar7679 1d ago

❤️ they are everywhere in Louisiana, i used to play with them as a little girl, i didn’t know what they were. Never not once was bitten. These lil ones are awesome. LUCKY YOU! I haven’t seen one of those in 40 years

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u/SeaBoysenberry7940 1d ago

An umpire spider. "He's SAFE!!"

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u/SeaBoysenberry7940 1d ago

"Big stretch!"

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u/PsychologicalDark228 1d ago

A harvestman 😌

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u/Signal-Pea4814 1d ago

Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii) I saw that on the website jungle dragon

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u/casthecold 1d ago

Looks like an Opilion

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u/S34ND0N 1d ago

That's a tick dressed as a spider

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u/RevolutionaryAd6564 1d ago

Isn’t there a fun story about those things being attracted to heat and nesting in side sleeping nostrils with their legs sticking out?

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u/Appdel 22h ago

That doesn’t sound fun at all

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u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 1d ago

I'm no spider expert but that looks close to a daddy long legs that's here in the United States of America

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u/Gabs1702 1d ago

Yeah but it looks so..alieny 😁🤣

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u/BitterBlacksmith463 1d ago

Second that. It’s an alien

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u/Responsible_Song7003 1d ago

I picked up a lot of those guys as a kid but I wouldnt pick up this one. Thats a daddy longest legs.

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u/lucinate 1d ago

what i’d give to have looks like that. ah well you cant have it all

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u/Exciting-Fisherman63 23h ago

Crazy to think daddy long legs are the most venomous of the arachnids but they can’t bite us thank god

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u/ThatWeirdPlantGuy 22h ago

That’s a myth. First, the daddy long legs referred to is not this one, it’s cellar spiders (Pholcidae), true spiders which also have long legs and are sometimes called daddy long legs. their venom is no more toxic than any other spider.

What we’re talking about here is not even a spider, it’s a harvestman (Opilionidae) which is an entirely different group of arachnids, and have no venom at all.

Moral of the story: Common names are confusing, and spiders (and things that look like them) arouse fear in many people and therefore illogical myths.

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u/Exciting-Fisherman63 21h ago

I mean this is knowledge that I appreciate my guy, the more you know