Daddy Long Legs in SA too. Common in houses here.

Alan C

-----Original Message----- From: Igor PDML-StR
Sent: 18 January, 2018 5:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PESO: Spider Family


David,

Wow, I've never seen anything like that!
So many spiders, and especially little ones!

Personally, I don't like this type of spiders. In my childhood we didn't
even considered them as spiders.
(In the US they are called "Daddy longlegs", and I saw a reference but
have never heard from anybody personally, "harvestmen/harvesters".
The latter is interesting, because in Russia they are called very
similarly (if translated), "hay-scyther" or "scythe-legs")

I prefer what I would call more "traditional" spiders, with shorter legs,
especially those that make nice looking webs in the forest [*]  (as long
as it is not in my face ;-) ).
Or, house ones, like this:
http://42graphy.org/galleries/spider/bin/images/large/IMGP4079_Edit.jpg

My favorite so far, is this UFO (I posted it here some 2.5 years ago):
http://42graphy.org/misc/2015-06-10-spider/


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[*] You might call it a "bush", what we call a "forest" here.
At least that's how it is in Australia. :-)

Cheers,

Igor




David Mann Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:18:37 -0800 wrote:

Arachnophobes, avert your eyes :)

We found a spider with her little hatchlings on our kitchen ceiling today.
This is the first time I've used my DSLR since last April, and I don't
know how
long it'd been since I last used a tripod.


http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1054/#peso

Cheers,
Dave

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