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Originally Posted by john70t

Around here Crane flies occasionally cover buildings and pile up in heaps like snow drifts.
(Or so I've heard and seen pics of)

I've only seen in once next to the big water near Detwaah..but it was remarkable.

Daddy long legs are the spider found in MI basements.
They are actually poisonous technically but their fangs are too short to worry humans.

Right. I've always know "daddy long legs" as spiders, but according to the Internet there are people that call crane flies daddy long legs, and so there's a myth around them (crane flies) being venomous. I'd never heard that. I have heard that the spiders are venomous. I think pretty much all spiders are. That's how they get food. Yes, the venom in DLL spiders is not anything that we have to worry about because they aren't really equipped to bite us, and the venom isn't a big issue for us anyway.

I've seen lots of crane flies before, but nothing like you describe. Wow!

DLL spiders are odd. They look like a tiny bean with legs. You don't see the usual spider body parts.