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Hi, do you know the name of a spider that looks a ball with legs. It the size of a BB (pellet) with thin long leg. They gather like hundreds in corners.
I´m from Guatemala, I´m gonna post a photo soon.

Thanks yeah thats the spider
Thanks yeah thats the spider I was talking about, I knew that somebody had to know the name of this funny looking spider. All my life I seen then, and never knew the name. I took some photo their are not so good because I took then with my cellphone, I´m going to post them as soon as I know how.

 
Photos
I couldn't post the photo here so I add them to the ID request. The number of the photos are 492948 and 492947. I looked at the other opilones (in this guide and wikipedia) nasty looking creatures, I like the ones I have in my backyard.
Any body knows if this ones eat flies, I been making compost and there are some tiny flies with red eyes over my compost, can I move some spider to the compost? My backyard is large so its unlikely that they get there without help.

Daddy long legs?
They sound like daddy long legs or Opiliones.
They do gather in large groups. I have seen them in Mexico like these. I keep hoping that somebody post an image in Bugguide; there must be similar gatherings in Texas.
Opiliones, sierra Madre. file00202001.w
I wish I knew the name in Spanish.

 
How about...
segador, which seems to be a direct equivalent to the name "harvestman" used in England

 
Spanish
Spanish Wiki calls them: "murgaño, segador". The funny thing is that in all my years in Argentina I never even noticed their existence. If I saw any I probably thought that they were spiders. That is how ignorant about arthropods I was then.
G Whiz: Crane flies (tipulids) are also called daddy long legs or harvestmen, to add to the confusion; so your translation may refer to the flies and not to the opilionids.
Some Spanish websites seem to prefer the word opiliones.

 
Nombres
Mi diccionario dice típulo o segador.

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