The daddy long-leg spider (Pholcidae) is often confused with the "harvestman" (Opiliones) which can also be called a daddy long-leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The first "daddy long-legs" is actually a harvestman, or Opilione.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flattened fauna of sidewalks - Part 3] Reference

Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference

Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeremiah 9.] Reference

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Reph'a-im.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaiah 17.] Reference

A number of other invertebrate species, including beetles, harvestman, spiders, millipedes, and freshwater mussels are specialists on habitats modified by old Redwood and other conifer forests and maintain very local distributions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern California coastal forests] Reference

Several of the only known localities for endemic harvestman, spiders, land snails, and other invertebrates have been heavily altered or lost through logging within the last decade, and the current status of these species is unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Klamath-Siskiyou forests] Reference

Ere the sun walks abroad, must the harvestman rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enthusiasm and Other Poems] Reference

A daddy-long-legs (harvestman), hanging out with the spiders.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

Having heard that Daddy Longlegs was a harvestman, she urged him to go to work for Farmer Green at harvest time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug] Reference

One is the harvestman (Opiliones) and is often called a daddy long-legs but is not actually a spider, and does not even spin webs and has only two eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

My own view is that you will not on that account make the farm worker a less efficient harvestman, but you will make him a happier father, you will be making him a more contented citizen, and may make him a more profitable worker than he has ever been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918] Reference

And if they are still sung there, it is not, I think, for the sake of the kings, but for the sake of the poets who made them -- Red-haired Owen O'Sullivan, potato-digger, harvestman, hedge-schoolmaster, whose poems are still the joy of the Munster people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish] Reference

After returning to Dhaka I surfed several internet sites and checked the Asiatic Society's Fauna volume on Arachnida -- a class of invertebrates which include the largest number of animals after the Insects, with nearly 100,000 species of spiders, several thousand ticks, mites, harvestman, scorpions and about 100 species of scorpion look-alike Whip and False scorpions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Star] Reference

And here such multitudes shall fall that their bodies shall lie as thick as heaps of dung in the furrows of the field, and no more notice shall be taken of them than of the handfuls which the harvestman drops for the gleaners, for none shall gather them, but they shall remain in sight, monuments of divine vengeance, that the eye of the impenitent survivors may affect their heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

22 Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

5. And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference

Like to a harvestman that’s task’d to mow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene III. Coriolanus] Reference

Labels: harvestman, invertebrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)] Reference