A
daddy came to visit
There
he was sitting on the wall behind my computer a big gangly legged
monster.
He had
this tiny body not more than the size of a pea and just enormous
legs. He sat there all day long. Didn't twitch, move a leg, not
any leg and didn't eat although I told him there were plenty of
spiders around as well as my arch enemies- grasshoppers.which he
would be doing me a favor if he could go outside and kill a few of
them.
Yes he
is a Daddy Longlegs. Well that's what I originally thought. Also I
thought that was very appropriate as it was Fathers Day. It was not
until I did a bit of research that I found out he wasn't actually a
daddy longlegs at all. He was a harvestmen and not even a spider.
Harvestmen
are arachnids.
Very similar .
He
still had enormous long legs and I didn't fancy trying to pick him up
and put him outside or do what most people would do, squash him with
a rolled up newspaper. So I went out for lunch with the family and
my long egged visitor had gone when I came back. Where to it's
anyone’s guess but I hope he took my words of catching grasshoppers
to heart.
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