Re: What's the difference between 'Daddy Long Legs' and Harvestman?

Date: Thu Jul 13 19:24:52 2000
Posted By: David Richman, Staff, Entomology
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 963453814.Zo

Message:


These are both common names for the same group of arachnids, the 
order Phalangida or Opiliones.

Reference:

Levi, Herbert W., and Lorna R. Levi.  1968.  Spiders and their kin. Golden 
Press, New York (see especially  pp. 54-55).

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