Daddy long-legs spider
The daddy long-legs spider has a tiny pale body and eight super long, thin legs. Its legs are five or six times longer than its body. It likes to hang upside down on ceilings, in corners of rooms, garages and cellars.

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Fun facts
Its body is so thin you can almost see through it.
It has eight eyes: two small dark ones at the front and six bigger ones behind them.
It does not like the cold, so it lives inside warm buildings. People helped it travel all around the world.
A young spider takes about a year to grow up, and then it can live two more years or even longer.
Scientists think its silk might one day be useful in medicine.
Most asked questions about Daddy long-legs spider
?How big is a daddy long-legs spider?
Its body is only about 6 to 10 millimetres long, but its legs are five or six times longer.
?Is a daddy long-legs a spider?
This one is a real spider. But people also use the name daddy long-legs for harvestmen and crane flies, which are different animals.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pholcus phalangioides
- Named by
- FΓΌssli, 1775
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pholcidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pholcidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Cosmopolitan cellar spider, Long-bodied cellar spider
Where the facts come from
- Pholcus phalangioides (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Olei. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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