The spiders called daddy long-legs a.) aren't spiders, though they are arachnids, and b.) aren't super giving when it comes to name-origin: one theory is that the name came after a novel or play of the same name from 1912. Huh? Like, what were they called before that? "Those skinny king-crab bugs?" Or, on seeing the title reviewed in the New York Herald Tribune, were the folks of 1912 taking to the streets in relief, that, yes!, here at last was a suitable name for those skinny spider[-like arachnid]s that had been ceaselessly roaming the earth, nameless?
And in the UK, they call the bug the Harvestman, which is so Andy Partridge-y you can barely stand it.
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