This is correct for USians (at least Midwest/Midatlantic/South).
I know it is probably rong for Scots and other denizens of Yurp. Probably rong for other USian regions too. Sorry.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 02:46 (seven years ago) link
I voted once for each leg.
― a warm bowl of soap (WilliamC), Thursday, 1 June 2017 02:47 (seven years ago) link
Which order were the pics in prior to the results? The bottom one is what I'd call a dll.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 1 June 2017 03:24 (seven years ago) link
Top one (the arachnid formerly known as harvestman/haywagon) was on top. Other two have switched.
The arachnid now in the middle position (cellar spider) was on the bottom.
The one that's now in the middle (Crane fly / mosquito hawk / gallinipper / gollywhopper) had been on the bottom.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
Gallinipper. I ask you.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 03:34 (seven years ago) link
Shit, I messed that up. Cellar spider now in the middle had been on the bottom. Sorry.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 03:35 (seven years ago) link
I meant that cellar spider now on the bottom had been in the middle. I need to go to bed.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 1 June 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
so broadly speaking the winner is US usage, the runner-up European and the last place antipodean?
― Covfefe growing vpon the skull of a man (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 June 2017 07:15 (seven years ago) link
Broadly reflecting the make up of ILX regular posters!
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:40 (seven years ago) link
Daddly longlegs is a crane fly. The other two are just spiders. No doubt in my mind.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
yr absence of doubt is misplace, a harvester is not a spider
― mark s, Thursday, 1 June 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
Yeah harvestmen (order opilones) are arachnids but not spiders; the distinction is probably not interesting to most non-entomologeeks.
― kajagoogoo's kazooist (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
my dad was highly arachnophobic, flinching at even quite tiny spiders -- he was totally unbothered by harvestmen though, he said they moved in a different and non-scary way
(he was a naturalist, but his geek thing was plants)
― mark s, Thursday, 1 June 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
it isn't the legginess of spiders that makes them unsettling so much as the other appendages on their heads that drag on the ground (palps I think?)
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 1 June 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link
ok for research purposes i googled trypophobia arachnophobia: never do this
― mark s, Thursday, 1 June 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
Interesting thing is, I encountered a dragonfly of some sort earlier. Basically a daddy long legs but the moral and spiritual implications are totally different.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Wha? Those fuckers are like 90% wing.
― kajagoogoo's kazooist (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
I suppose but there's still a sort of bumpy clumsy dangly body and legs element, just it's okay because it's shiny and nice. You feel brushed by a shiny friend instead of harassed
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
you only like them for their chitinous exoskeletons
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
dragonflies have nice big bulbous heads w/huge eyes, crane fly heads are clearly designed by gary larson
― mark s, Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:56 (seven years ago) link
so this morning (and unusually) i noticed a crane fly* aka mosquito hawk on my bathroom wall. i am in a mood to be superstitious** currently, and my first thought was "uh oh" (second: "that's unusual")
i am no longer mortally afraid of them, as i was when tiny (see upthread) but they never come into my bathroom and are rare in london at all in my experience, and i was made uneasy by the visit
just now, not looking carefully while brushing my teeth and moving a plastic soap dispenser, i managed to half-drown and half-squish it, washing it (possibly already dead) into the plughole but not yet down the plughole. i am now in a mood to be MUCH MORE superstitious and uneasy :( :( :(
*daddy longlegs, call it by its name **Superstition
― mark s, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
Picturing those legs clambering back out of the plughole
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link