This spider has taken residence in a corner of one of the rooms, I’m not bothered by them but the web is getting a bit too big… can I just remove part of it to keep the size in check without causing harm to the spider?

    • OkaEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      If it looks like a spider, and acts like a spider, and freaks me out like a spider, it’s close enough

      • o_oli@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        In the UK what we call a daddy longlegs has wings and flies (a crane fly I think). Obviously a very widely used name for things with a small body and a bunch of long legs haha

          • o_oli@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Can’t tell if you are being serious or pulling my leg with that but I love it haha. I mean it’s a perfect way to distinguish because over here we have no good way to call the spiders other than ‘one of those long leg small body kinda spiders’ which is a terrible name.

            • emmanuel_car@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              Definitely not pulling your long leg, daddy, it’s how we distinguish between the long legged things with wings and the long legged things without

    • becOPEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      That doesn’t look like my friend at all lol

      This one here looks very much similar to my friend (thin and long body): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae

      No idea why there’s multiple animals called all the same way though

      • cupcake_of_DOOM@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Cellar spiders/ daddy long legs have become catch-all terms for any spider or pseudo spider with tiny body and long legs. Anyway, webs get disturbed all the time in nature. The spider just rebuilds. As long as you don’s bump in to them, they will just repair the web. If the web needs repair too often, then the spider will move elsewhere.

        • becOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I see, kinda lazy nomenclature, but I guess with all the different kinds of spiders, at some point you run out of names ahah thanks for the info! I hope they stay because they’ve been eating good, and I appreciate the reduced amount of insects

    • Narrrz@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      over here (NZ) what we call daddy long legs are, I believe, known as cellar spiders in other places.

          • livus@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            I used to think so too! To be fair the whitetails want to eat the daddy longlegs, but they don’t have the reach advantage.

            There are some videos on youtube eg this one.

            Can’t find it right now but somewhere there’s a 3 part one showing how the daddy longlegs deliberately lures the whitetail to try to come and eat it, but it’s a trap.