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? asked in Science & MathematicsZoology · 9 years ago

Are daddy long legs spiders the most poisoning spider in the world?

I was talking to my dad and he said that he heard daddy long legs spiders are the most poisoning spiders in the world. But they can't harm anyone because there fangs are too small to bite. So is that true. It's all over the internet

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  • 9 years ago
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    Yes, their mouth is so small that they can't bite.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Its a whole fable. Daddy lon legs venom is solely robust enoug to kill flies. An city legend claims that the harvestman is essentially the most venomous animal on this planet, however its fangs are too small to chunk a human and for this reason just isn't hazardous. (The equal fable applies to the cellar spider, which is also called a daddy longlegs)[7]. This is untrue on several counts. None of the recognized species have venom glands or fangs, as an alternative having chelicerae [8]. The dimensions of its mouth varies with the aid of species, however even those with reasonably tremendous jaws rarely chunk humans or other enormous creatures, even in self-security. The few known instances of exact bites did not involve envenomation, and had no lasting result from wikipedia

  • 9 years ago

    No. That is an old urban myth, recently resurrected as an internet joke,

    TRUTH:

    Cellar spiders, AKA daddy long-leg spiders, have a rather weak venom, that has little or no effect on humans.

    These spiders can indeed bite human skin, but they are very reluctant to bite.

    If you were able to provoke one to bite, you may never notice it.

    http://www.burkemuseum.org/spidermyth/myths/daddyv...

    This was further debunked by snopes dot com, and Mythbusters.

    Personally, I have never been able to provoke a bite from one, and if any have ever bitten, I never noticed at all.

    Source(s): UC Irvine, entomology
  • 9 years ago

    Daddy Long Legs are not the most poisonous spider as you’ll often hear people say. We’ll just ignore the fact that there’s a big difference between “poisonous” and “venomous”, which makes the previous sentence even more ridiculous and assume people mean “venomous” when they make that statement. We’ll also ignore the fact that one of the two arachnids commonly called “Daddy Long Legs” isn’t even a spider.

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  • 9 years ago

    Daddy long legs spiders are completely harmless . They are even sort of friendly . I don't know where youve heard this but I have seen a lot of these spiders and they are harmless .

  • 9 years ago

    No, the sand spider and the Brazilian spider are. I wouldn't screw around with a brown recluse either.

  • Mr K
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    No. It was on mythbusters. They purposely got the fangs to break a persons skin and all they got was a tiny little rash.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Yes

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    NO!!!!!

    Daddy is an idiot who can't tell POISONOUS from VENOMOUS & sired a nitwit that can't either & can't even SPELL poisonous.

    Fing unicorns are "all over the internet"...so what??

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    yes but their mouth is to small so they cant bite u

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