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“This” was a creaky cabin with picnic tables crawling with daddy long-legs.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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“This” was a creaky cabin with picnic tables crawling with daddy long-legs.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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“This” was a creaky cabin with picnic tables crawling with daddy long-legs.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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“This” was a creaky cabin with picnic tables crawling with daddy long-legs.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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Did I tell you that I was killing this HUGE bug - a cross between a centipede and a daddy long-legs - and this spider jumped on my chest at the same time?
Heeeeeeere's Misterpie! kittenpie 2007
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"Daddy long-legs" is a name attached to harvestmen where I come from, and different insects in other places.
Flattened fauna of sidewalks - Part 3 AYDIN 2008
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I've heard recently that what I call "crane flies", out East, they call "Daddy long-legs".
Flattened fauna of sidewalks - Part 3 AYDIN 2008
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On one occasion, while picking up the live snails, I also saw this daddy long-legs feasting on a luckless snail that had been crushed to death.
Daddy long-legs eating a snail AYDIN 2008
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I was trying to avoid an uncharacteristically agile daddy long-legs as I watched Spooks last night … rather spoiled the mood ….
miscellany at largesse « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006
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The first "daddy long-legs" is actually a harvestman, or Opilione.
Flattened fauna of sidewalks - Part 3 AYDIN 2008
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