Harvestmen, or daddy longlegs, are common around East Texas. Worldwide there are more than 37 families of harvestmen, with 18 species reported in Texas. They may scare many people but they are ...

Harvestmen are often scavengers, like this one that came to eat from moth bait painted on the trees. They have eight long, skinny legs and rounded bodies. They crawl all over trees and logs, finding ...

Let’s start with what harvestmen are not. They are not men, nor do they harvest; they probably get their name from the time of year they’re commonly spotted, in late summer or early fall. Though eight ...

Duke biology graduate student Brendan Lam studies the vision of harvestmen, a type of arachnid that looks like a spider.

Daddy longlegs are their own order. Nothing to be scared of. Photo courtesy Ryan Poplin/Flickr/Creative Commons Earlier this month, Vine user Pablo Barroeta of Cholula, Mexico, posted a video showing ...

Daddy-long-legs, which look like spiders with thin legs much longer than their bodies, are generally seen as harmless. But according to many versions of a popular rumor, daddy-long-legs are actually ...

“What is it?” I asked, at the age of 4, pointing to a leggy thing on the side of our house. “That’s a daddy long legs — it won’t bite” my mother responded. Mom wasn’t always right, but she was right ...

In the family of arachnids, harvestmen have always played Jan Brady to spiders' Marcia, with their charismatic array of predatory talents and perfectly straight blonde hair (kidding about that second ...

According to the calendar, the midpoint between the summer solstice in June and the autumnal equinox in September is the first week of August. We are now in midsummer. The sunrises are getting later ...

Scientists have discovered a 305-million-year-old fossil of a daddy longlegs, a joint-legged invertebrate, which revealed that the ancient predecessors of this arachnid -- also known as harvestmen -- ...