Harvestman?
I was looking through my June pictures and noticed this fella in there. The picture seemed pretty good, so my plan was to talk a little about the species. I was a little surprised to find that not only does the picture lack a species identification in iNaturalist , but nobody would even confirm that this is a harvestman . Despite this lack of an authoritative identification, I've chosen to blunder ahead and talk about what I'm pretty sure this is. Part of the lack of an ID may be related to the name I had for these arthropods when I was growing up; we called them daddy longlegs . Unfortunately the daddy longlegs name is overused to the point of being almost useless. People use it to refer to not only harvestmen (non-spider arachnids), but also cellar spiders (which actually are spiders) and crane flies (which are winged insects). (Admittedly they all have long legs.) Crane flies may share a name with the two types of arachnids, but with 6 legs and a pair of wings they're ...