Most Americans who spend time outdoors use the term daddy long legs for harvestmen. Harvestmen are not spiders, but they are an arachnid. They are characterized by having one basic body segment which shows segmentation on the posterior portion, at most 2 eyes and all 8 legs attach to the pill-like body segment.[5] Harvestmen also have no venom and do not produce silk for webs.
Harvestmen also have a different pallet when it comes to getting a meal when it compared to crane flies and cellar spiders. Harvestmen prefer to eat decomposing vegetative and animal matter although are opportunist predators if they can get away with it.