Harvestman waits

2 October 2008 6 Comments Home » Insects etc.

A harvestman waits in a Toronto backyard. Harmless to humans, and not spiders, we called them daddy longlegs when I was a kid.
Harvestman


See a spider rule an empire of light.

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  • Deb Newton said:

    In New England we called them Daddy Long Legs too, and I thought that was a regional name – glad to hear I was wrong! I was always afraid of them when I was a kid, but now it makes me happy to see one. My mother always used to say it was bad luck to kill a spider, or any other bug for that matter. And I still believe it. Although I heard that when the Dalai Lama swats at a pesky biter, he says “Go be a Buddha!”. I like that.

    # 3 October 2008 at 4:08 pm
  • Rick said:

    Nice story about the Dalai Lama, Deb.
    I can’t imagine why anyone would kill another creature for no reason, and if I believed in luck, I would hope it would cause bad luck.

    # 4 October 2008 at 4:22 pm
  • Moe said:

    They are daddy long legs here in Iowa, too!

    Great photo!

    # 5 October 2008 at 11:01 am
  • Rick said:

    Thanks, Moe. Maybe they’re called Daddy Long Legs all over the country, and we all think it’s a regional name.

    # 5 October 2008 at 4:23 pm
  • Strangefeather said:

    “The many loves of a harvestman” – you had a collage titled so some years ago; is it still extant? Can you post?

    # 7 October 2008 at 5:09 am
  • Rick said:

    That collage is over twenty years old, I’m not sure I have a digital image of it; I’ll check.

    It was part of the art I displayed in the exhibition Super Realities – Surrealism in Detroit at the Detroit Artists Market in 1988.

    # 7 October 2008 at 8:55 am

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