Daddy Long Legs

A small insect that looks like a spider and that has a small round body and long thin legs see the full definition for daddy longlegs in the english language learners dictionary.

Daddy long legs. We know from a very well preserved fossil of a daddy longlegs from scotland that they are at least 400 million years old clouse says. As a larva it is a grey grub also known as a leatherjacket that lives underground feeding on plants stems and roots. The family contains over 1 800 pholcids including those commonly known as cellar spider daddy long legs spider granddaddy long legs spider carpenter spider daddy long legger vibrating spider long daddy and skull spider. Daddy longlegs order opiliones also spelled daddy longlegs or daddy long legs also called harvestman any of more than 6 000 species of arachnids class arachnida that are known for their extremely long and thin legs and for their compact bodies.

The common name daddy long legs is used for several species especially pholcus phalangioides but is also the common name for several. It follows the protagonist jerusha judy abbott as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen. Daddy long legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the american writer jean webster. People often mistake a daddy longlegs also called a harvestman for a spider.

The daddy longlegs is actually a large type of cranefly of which there are 94 species in the uk. Daddy longlegs is a term used to refer to three different types of critters and only one of them is a spider. This fossil actually looks a lot like the long legged. English language learners definition of daddy longlegs us.

It is familiar to us in its adult form as the gangly insect that flits around our homes in summer. Like all arachnids they do have eight legs and tend to skitter about the way spiders do. The pholcidae are a family of araneomorph spiders. Daddy long legs 2015 2015 usa based on jean webster s story of a young girl in an orphanage whose innate charm and self confidence at first appeal to the sympathies of one of the institution s young sponsors who while.

Daddy longlegs do have some spider like qualities since like spiders they are classified as arachnids. Daddy long legs approved 2h 6min musical romance 5 may 1955 usa a wealthy american has a chance encounter with a joyful young french woman and anonymously pays for her education. The family first described by carl ludwig koch in 1850 is divided into 94 genera.