RESIDENT SNAIL NERD

a sweet-faced pied harvestman, Libitoides sayii

Honestly the mere fact that some people refer to Daddy Long Legs as “harvestmen” is creepier than 90% of all deliberately created horror but like the worst part is that the alternative is calling them Daddy Long Legs

#WHAT ARE THEY HARVESTING #I AM HAUNTED AND VEXED

They are harvesting our sorrows

True harvestmen, and not cellar spiders which are the other Daddy Long Legs, are truly omnivorous- known to eat everything from spiders, to fecal matter, to leaves and fungus… But one of the singularly most interesting habits of a particular European species is their almost symbiotic relationship with beehives– particularly man-made beehives. When a bee dies inside the hives, workers will remove the the corpse to just outside the hive just before dark. And the harvestmen? Well, they live up to their name.

So what you’re saying is that they are the grim reaper for bees.

The grim beeper

Ohhhh my goodness I love harvestmen and especially the fancy ones! These dudes live in the US which may surprise people since the harvestmen we’re used to are just your typical daddy longlegs. I’d love to see one feeding if you ever get pics or video of that! Thanks for sharing and please tell your harvestman that it has my undying love and devotion.

Bunny Harvestman, Metagryne bicolumnata, Opiliones by Andreas Kay

I love him with my whole entire heart. :(

Honestly the mere fact that some people refer to Daddy Long Legs as “harvestmen” is creepier than 90% of all deliberately created horror but like the worst part is that the alternative is calling them Daddy Long Legs

#WHAT ARE THEY HARVESTING #I AM HAUNTED AND VEXED

They are harvesting our sorrows

True harvestmen, and not cellar spiders which are the other Daddy Long Legs, are truly omnivorous- known to eat everything from spiders, to fecal matter, to leaves and fungus… But one of the singularly most interesting habits of a particular European species is their almost symbiotic relationship with beehives– particularly man-made beehives. When a bee dies inside the hives, workers will remove the the corpse to just outside the hive just before dark. And the harvestmen? Well, they live up to their name.

So what you’re saying is that they are the grim reaper for bees.

The grim beeper

thanks facebook for this very important information

 we gotta kinkshame fuckin fossils now

It gets better when you see the newspaper headline

apparently daddy long legs are called ‘harvestman’ in other parts of the world

what are they harvesting?????