Saturday, March 18, 2006

The "daddy long legs"

It a commonly believed myth that the "daddy long legs" has the most poisonous venim known to man but no fangs through which to administer it.
This is a myth and NOT TRUE.
Firstly there are two insects commonly known as dadddy long legs. There's the "daddy long legs" and the "daddy long legs spider".
So it's the spider variant which has the poison and no fangs?
Well, no... not really.
If the daddy long legs spider had venim but no fangs then the only way we would know that the venim is indeed deadly to humans would be to "mik" one and inject a human with the extracted venom.
Due to the fact that such research would go against Amnesty International and a humanitarian code of ethics, it has never been done.
So there's no real basis for this belief at all.
So there...

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