http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
Many species of harvestmen easily tolerate members of their own species, with aggregations of many individuals often found at protected sites near water. These aggregations can count up to 200 animals in the Laniatores, but more than 70,000 in certain Eupnoi. This behavior is likely a strategy against climatic odds, but also against predators, combining the effect of scent secretions, and reducing the probability of each individual of being eaten.
kill it with fire!!!
spidorgy
You sir, are rude.
I, sirs, demand to know what is going on here.
that made me itch reminded me of the movie eight leged freaks
Those aren’t daddy long legs, they’re harvestmen. And they technically aren’t spiders.
They are daddy long legs.
daddy longlegs are a type of harvestmen
perhaps it was a nest and they had just hatched recently?
They’re not spiders they are Opillionids (HARVESTMEN). Freaking creepy all the same though!
harvestmen aka daddy long legs, and they are of the spiddy clan
WTF?
Who cares what they are called dude? Will some biologist explain me what the f*** would-be spiders are doing in ball shape on a tree?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
Many species of harvestmen easily tolerate members of their own species, with aggregations of many individuals often found at protected sites near water. These aggregations can count up to 200 animals in the Laniatores, but more than 70,000 in certain Eupnoi. This behavior is likely a strategy against climatic odds, but also against predators, combining the effect of scent secretions, and reducing the probability of each individual of being eaten.