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Daddy long legs arenβt spiders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
If it looks like a spider, and acts like a spider, and freaks me out like a spider, it's close enough
In the UK what we call a daddy longlegs has wings and flies (a crane fly I think). Obviously a very widely used name for things with a small body and a bunch of long legs haha
We call those flying daddy long legs in NZ
Can't tell if you are being serious or pulling my leg with that but I love it haha. I mean it's a perfect way to distinguish because over here we have no good way to call the spiders other than 'one of those long leg small body kinda spiders' which is a terrible name.
Definitely not pulling your long leg, daddy, itβs how we distinguish between the long legged things with wings and the long legged things without