I’m quite proud of how far I’ve come with accepting house spiders.

They’re not going to hurt us , after all, and though we might see more of them in autumn than any other time of year, they’re not “coming indoors” – they’ve likely always been there, and cannot usually survive outside .

But I confess I’m not so zen about craneflies – the winged, giant mosquito-looking critters I’ve always known as “daddy longlegs”.

These flitting, eerily spindly insects are terrifying for a reason. As a child, playground chatter had it that they carry the most powerful venom of any spider, yet they can’t break our skin to administer it.

But is that true?

Wrong on both counts, experts say

Speaking to HuffPost UK, ecologist, conservation scientist, and entomologist Professor Adam Hart of the Univer

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