'It was very mild, a little bit of pain and itching that faded very, very quickly,' Dr Nixon says. The ability of daddy-long-legs to bite a human was documented on television back in 2004 when the host of MythBusters, Adam Savage, put his arm in a tank of daddy-long-legs and got a small bite. 'If you don't stress the spiders out will choose not to bite you.
So, it's not that daddy-long-legs can't bite us, they probably choose not to, Dr Nixon says. But another type of spider that has these kinds of small fangs is the brown recluse spider (found in North America) it is clearly capable of biting people and is considered dangerous.
