Native plants for a Cape Cod garden

Although an order of the Arachnids, harvestmen (or Opiliones) are NOT spiders.

• harvestmen are scavengers. Spiders are predators
• harvestmen have no venom. Spiders do
• harvestmen don’t build webs. Many spiders do
• harvestmen have one pair of eyes (although a few species have none). Spiders have 3 or 4 pairs. (Better to hunt with)
• harvestmen have a fused body. Spiders have a distinct torso and abdomen

Of course, this is over-simplifying things a bit. But it should give you enough info to think about NOT squashing this beneficial creature. Not that you should be killing spiders either…