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Actually, what's the most poisonous insect? Well, I've heard that daddy longlegs is the most poisonous insect, but they have such tiny little things that they can't actually hurt you.

Is that true?

Everything you just said is a myth.

What?

Yeah, so first of all, a daddy long legs

is it a spider or is it an insect

it's an insect right it's not a spider it's actually both what

daddy long legs is an informal term for a couple different groups of animals. The most common type, which some people also call

Harvestmen, are in the order of Pilionis and they're insects. But the other type, which some people

call Cellar spiders, are officially called falsity and that's actually a spider.

Fun fact, you can tell which is which because spiders have segmented bodies while harvest men are all in one piece.

Anyway, about the venom.

Harvest men don't even have venom glands or fangs.

They generally eat decomposing plants and animals.

They're about as dangerous as a ladybug.

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