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Opiliones
I can always find these spider looking arthropods climbing walls. This one was on the exterior wall of my workplace.
Sides of buildings
Incorrectly called "Daddy Long Legs" around here. That term is also used for two other unrelated arthropods: the crane fly (Tipulidae) and the cellar spider (Pholcidae). Opiliones is not actually a spider (order Araneae) but is its own order of arthropod closely related to mites, scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and solifugae.
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