harvestman
Americannoun
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a person engaged in harvesting
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Also called (US and Canadian): daddy-longlegs. any arachnid of the order Opiliones (or Phalangida ), having a small rounded body and very long thin legs
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The team also revealed a treasure trove of underground species, including blind spiders, blind harvestman, and a whip scorpion, all new to science, in a previously unexplored cave system.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
Three arthropod species were named for him by other scientists — a spider, a millipede and a spider relative called a harvestman.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
The user also tested it out and found some poor results: “One of my harvestman photos was IDed as a jumping spider, one as a termite, and another one as a crane fly.”
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2022
In the harvestman genome, the team pinpointed a number of genes that are also known to control the development of legs in insect species.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
Little Mrs. Ladybug, who was somewhat of a gossip, discovered in some way that Daddy Longlegs was a harvestman.
From The Tale of Daddy Longlegs Tuck-Me-In Tales by Smith, Harry L.
Citizen scientists have helped researchers uncover how parental care evolved in harvestmen, a group of spider like arachnids, by contributing observations through the popular nature platform iNaturalist.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The mix includes bigger spiders, as well as harvestmen.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
The glowing replicas lured an array of ants, cockroaches, flies, beetles, spiders, harvestmen, slugs, snails and centipedes.
From Reuters ● Mar. 19, 2015
The sumptuous Stoker is his his first English-language production, but it's unmistakably his work: adorned everywhere with picturebook flourishes – harvestmen creeping over slim ankles, brushed hair dissolving into cornfields, blood-spattered foliage.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2013
Of the enormous number of harvestmen who passed every year through Liverpool, except from the County Donegal, there were not so many from the northern province.
From The Life Story of an Old Rebel by Denvir, John
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