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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 30                           difference between “poisonous” and “venomous,” which makes the previous sentence even more ridiculous and assume people mean “venomous” when they 31                           that statement. We’ll also ignore the fact that one of the two arachnids commonly called “Daddy Long Legs” isn’t even a spider.

“Daddy Long Legs” is the name of two distinct kinds of creatures, an arachnid and spider of the family Pholcidae and an arachnid in the family Phalangiidae, namely Opiliones. The 32                           of which does have venom, but there is no scientific basis of the idea that it is particularly harmful to humans, and the latter of which has no venom glands or other way to chemically subdue potential food sources or things that threaten it.

In the case of the pholcid spiders, which do have venom, they have very 33                           fang structure and size to brown-recluse spiders, who are perfectly 34                           of having their fangs penetrate deep enough to do serious damage to humans. However, before 2004, there were no known records of bites from the pholcid spiders to humans. This may be because when they do bite, nothing particularly bad happens. Or, it may be because they simply aren’t very aggressive or because their muscles used with their fangs aren’t as strong as the very similarly fanged brown-recluse spider. In any 35                          , the myth that their fangs are too small to penetrate sufficiently to deliver venom, simply isn’t true and to date, there is no scientific 36                           for the notion that their venom is particularly harmful to humans.

As a result, the two myths surrounding that one, that Daddy Long Legs can’t bite humans due to mouth/fang size and that their venom is particularly harmful, simply aren’t true.