Yes its a long known fact that daddylong legs are very poisonous, but cannot bite us.
However, I do have to disagree with someones comment on the previous page about leaving daddylong legs as they eat whitetails, when infact its the other way around. And this is what can make a white tail's bite so bad; it all depends on their last meal. So whenever I see the daddylong legs have disappeared......well,.....its nobody's guess who ate it!
From the wetandforget site someone posted earlier:
Toxicity
The toxicity of their bite depends on the type of spider that they have been eating.
And this is from a pest control site:
Food Source
White tailed spiders eat other spiders who eat bugs.....
There has been much research into the effects of a white tailed spider bite and although often inconclusive there is plenty of evidence to suggest that some people do have radical reactions if bitten. It could be worse for if the Daddy's Long Legs spider could get its jaws into our skin for it would kill us. There is a theory that if a white tailed spider has eaten a Daddy's Long Legs just before it bites a person then the extremely toxic venom could be transferred.
The above is just some info I quickly googled to put on here.....but it has been known for a long time that white tails do eat daddylong legs.
Edited by Nefertiti
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We havent had it done yet this year but the flies that do come in circle around and then either go back outside or die on the windowsill. We also get around the outside done as well, places like around the sandpit and around the outside windows where the nasty creepy crawlies like to hide!
