When a National Park Service building in Southeast Alaska begin growing fur , it appear to be something flat out of a B - rated Sci - Fi flick feature theWolf Man . Upon closer investigation , thing got even creepier .
“ At first it appeared that to celebrate#Halloweenour admin building was sprouting hair , ” indite commons official in anonline post .
Arachnophobes beware : this is about to get dicey . The fur - similar strands deform out to be move , living … legs . And not just any legs . 100 of creepy , crawly limb belonging to a spider - looking creature , the daddy long - leg . Across societal media , the photos have been shared thousands of times with equal amounts of machination and disgust . It ’s easy to see why – it actually look like farsighted , common , brownish - black haircloth are rise out of the building ’s cracks .
But await closely and you could actually see the tiny rotary bodies retain each circle of eight leg together . We had to have sex : Is this eccentric of phobia - inducing cluster behavior all that common ? evidently , yes .
“ They might bundle together like this for trade protection or for search , but the effect is telling and perfect for this day , ” write Glacier Bay National Park in aFacebook situation .
AnOpilionesby any other name ( admit harvestmen , shepherd spider , and granddaddy graybeards ) is not really a spider , even though they resemble arachnids . Mostly combat-ready at night , the harvestmen are seen in big clusters during the fall ( right around harvest time ) during the day , only to dissipate in the hundreds as shortly as night falls . Unlike spiders , daddy long - legs do n’t have silk spinnerets for tissue webs . Rather , it is an opportunistic huntsman that feeds on a variety of prey , as long as it ’s belittled enough to fit in their teeny tiny Phthirius pubis - similar mouths , including soft - corporal insects like slugs , snails , leaf mallet larvae , and decay organic matter . As if that ’s not stinky enough , they also have special secretor for a defense that produces strong - smell secernment to ward off predators ( ew ) . Oh , yeah , and their eyes areon their backs(WTF ? ! ) .
In all honesty , harvestmen sort of get a unsound rap . They can not bite humans ( phew ) and actually do n’t even produce malice , despite manyurban legendssaying they are the most toxicant wanderer in the world . And hey , it ’s kind of precious that they all stick together , right ?
