I spotted this “daddy longlegs” this weekend, and switched my camera to its macro setting for this photo (click the photo for a much expanded and detailed version):
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I looked it up today on Wikipedia [2] and found out, to my surprise, that this animal is not technically a spider (even though it is an arachnid). Rather than a “spider” daddy longlegs are “harvestmen,” belonging to the order Opiliones (spiders belong to the order “aranea.”
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