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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DADDY-LONGLEGS»
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The
Daddy Longlegs Blues
Daddy Longlegs, a blues musician in a backyard boogie-woogie band, shimmies through the cool grass, glides across the swimming pool, relaxes beside the waterspout, and preens his eight legs before the big concert.
Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the tall spiderlike daddy longlegs.
Looks at the the physical characteristics, habits, and environment of the daddy longlegs.
Describes the anatomy, web-making, food, reproduction, enemies, and usefulness to humans of the Daddy longleg spider, which is often confused with other longlegged insects, and mistakenly feared as poisonous.
Leslie C. Kaplan, Jake Miller, 2004
A daddy longlegs is a good addition to a home. It will eat lots of flies, mosquitoes,
ants, and moths. The spider gets this food three ways. Webs belonging to other
spiders provide a daddy longlegs with food. The daddy longlegs may crawl into ...
But a daddy longlegs has eight, like a spider. But he's not a spider. Sometimes
called "harvestmen," daddy longlegs are built differently from their spider cousins.
They have only two eyes while spiders have eight. Their bodies have no waist.
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Daddy Longlegs at Birch Lane
Observes the spring hatching of a daddy longlegs or harvestman and follows her until the autumn when she herself is ready to lay her eggs.
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The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends
For all I knew, “daddy longlegs” could be an Australian common name for
something other than an opilionid—maybe even a deadly spider. After all, I hadn't
been at the conference more than an hour before I discovered that an “iced
coffee” in ...
9
A Field Guide to Your Own Back Yard (Second Edition)
Mid-autumn is the time of year when you are most likely to encounter the
spiderlike arachnid known as the harvestman, or daddy longlegs. The young,
which hatch in spring, have matured by fall and can often be seen in sections of
your yard ...
John Hanson Mitchell, 2014
10
Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners
The trip of such a hitchhiker is almost assured of being a safe one, for each
daddy longlegs is well protected from larger animals that are always looking for a
tasty meal. A daddy longlegs can certainly not offer a tasty morsel since it
secretes a ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DADDY-LONGLEGS»
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How Daddy-Longlegs Catch the Uncatchable
Daddy-longlegs have proven to be expert hunters, literally snatching fleeing prey out of the air. Now, researchers have taken a close look at ... «Nature World News, Oct 14»
Vine Turns Out A Lot Worse Than Just A Bushel Of Pubic Hair (VIDEO)
... appears to be just a random bushel of pubic hair? When it turns out to be a giant cluster of daddy-longlegs instead! Via Daily Picks and Flicks ... «Huffington Post, Jan 14»
Weather Eye: a plague of daddy-longlegs
We could be heading for a plague of daddy-longlegs this autumn as the great gangly insects hatch out in record numbers. A recent survey by ... «The Times, Jun 13»
Are daddy-longlegs really as venomous as I've heard?
I grew up thinking that daddy-longlegs were those spider-like beasties with a spherical body and really long spindly legs that were invariably ... «OUPblog, Nov 11»
