CrazyDawg opened this issue on Apr 16, 2005 ยท 34 posts
Rayraz posted Sun, 17 April 2005 at 8:02 AM
ooh I know that one! The story is exagerated. I believe this spider did run though, just not at 25mph :-P and as far as I know it does not actually jump or at least not high enough to cling to the belly of a camel (like the myth goes). Also the camera angle makes these spiders look even bigger then they actually are ;) I've heard the myth that one of these spiders ate away part of a soldiers leg while the poor soldier was sleeping. However this myth isn't true either :P but it's still a cool creepy story! Ang, don't worry, daddy long legs are EXTREMELY hard to get them to bite you and they are completely not venomous to humans either. I've seen an actual test on that very myth innovator is mentioning. A guy put his arm in a chamber with many daddy long legs in it and they had to try quite hard to actually make any of them them bite him at all! and even when bitten it hardly had any effect. You probably won't ever get bitten by one unless you would actually seriously try to get bitten, and even then you mightvery well still not get bitten :-P
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