These are not real spiders, but resembles the spiders very much because they also have eight legs. They belong to the class Arachnida like the spiders, ticks and mites, scorpions and pseudoscorpiones. 3500 known species are known. 27 are found in NW-Europe.
Harvestmen have an oval shaped body.
They have two eyes in the middle of their head looking sideways. Most of the harvestmen have long legs, but not all. They also have no silk glands or spinners. They catch small insects or eat the decays of any dead animal, bird dung and other facial material, all kind of plant material and fungi. She normally is active during the night.