I recently posted a picture on Facebook of a daddy-longlegs and mistakenly called it a "spider". Boy was I wrong! (As my friends so quickly pointed out.) Apparently spiders usually have two body sections, eight eyes, and unsegmented abdomens while daddy-longlegs have one body section, two eyes, and segemented abdomens. The Spider Myths Site does a really good job explaining it when they say that daddy-longlegs are arachnids but not spiders in the same way that butterflies are insects but not beetles.
A little bit of trivia for you...now go impress all of your friends.
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