Are daddy long legs poisonous?
by 
merry1 in a Texican COAT
ANSWERS: 9
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Naa yo...
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No mate, there the most harmless creatures around :)
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Very much so. In fact from what I remember from biology class in HS(over a decade ago) they're more venomus than a black widdow. However their mouths are not able to bite humans.
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No. There is a rumour that they have the most powerful venom of all spiders but that is just a myth.
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No. In 2004, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth (Season 1, Episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness varies from about 0.5mm to 4mm), the show's host was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research by Alan Van Dyke has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well. More info. here: http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
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no,they aren`t
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Nope.
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This is a myth that has been going round for a long time, they are not poisonous.
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I do not think that they are.
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