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# Daddy Long Legs (Harvestman) - Is It Dangerous? | Mind of Animals

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# Daddy Long Legs (Harvestman)

Order Opiliones

Safearachnids

1 Totally safe danger 1 out of 5

Daddy Long Legs (Harvestman)

Photo by Bruce Marlin (CC BY-SA 2.5) via [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opiliones_harvestman.jpg)

## What you should know

The most famous myth in the whole animal kingdom is about this thing, and it is wrong twice: it is not a spider, and it has no venom glands at all.

## Whoa

It is more closely related to a scorpion than to a spider. It does not even build a web.

## Staying safe around it

This one is genuinely harmless to people. Still look with your eyes and let it go about its day.

**Always ask a grown-up before you touch any animal or plant.** If something bites or stings you, tell an adult right away.

Source: [our source list](/mind-of-animals/#sources)

Read more about the daddy long legs (harvestman) at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones).

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