Harvestmen are an order of arachnids, and although they look like spiders, they are distinctly different. They have been around for hundreds of millions of years and fossils have been recovered from the 400 million year old Rhynie Cherts in Scotland. read more
The same behavior is also observed among craneflies and cellar spiders (), the other groups which share the name “daddy long legs”, and they do it for the same reason. read more
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