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 ...

This is a cross section through the eyes of a harvestman – more commonly known as a daddy longlegs. This arachnid is often misidentified as a spider, but it belongs to its own biological order, ...

The arachnids, which are not spiders, were thought to have only two eyes, compared with many more on spiders. By Veronique Greenwood Guilherme Gainett, then a biologist at the University of ...

Some people cannot cope with a single daddy longlegs in their bedroom—or even worse, in a tent—but can you imagine coming across thousands of them grouped together? In this extraordinary YouTube clip, ...

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 ...

Some spider-like animals grow long legs that wrap and grasp like a monkey’s tail – and a genetic study has helped establish how they develop. Harvestmen, or daddy-long-legs, are arachnids, but they ...

Scientists have identified genes that make a harvestman arachnid’s appendages able to twirl like a monkey’s tail. By Veronique Greenwood The harvestman makes its way through the mossy woodland on ...

This was our first full winter in our down-sized home. I am used to the sounds of the house, but something new started a few weeks ago — stink bugs. They were hiding all over, and on warm days they ...

TOP: An eastern harvestman, Leiobunum vitattum. ABOVE: A common harvestman, Phalangium opilio. Stacey Clementz Stacey Clementz Eastern harvestman, Leiobunum vitattum ...