Mephisto2

I'm not particularly fond of spiders, especially the ones that can kill you (literally) that are found in Australia, but I'm no arachnophobe.

Having said that, these feckers give me the willies

http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/camelspider.htm


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Redjake

I saw this a short while back. An interesting disclaimer: those spiders aren't NEARLY as big as that first picture makes them look. They are about as big as a stick of deodorant. Still scary though. They can haul ass.

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djtestudo

http://snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

Those things scare the shit out of me, and I'm 10,000 miles from anywhere they may be.

*shivers*

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:::OshnSoul:::

ya, saw that pic in the "insenct" thread...omfg, is all I can say.....

charlesesl

Just another creature on earth. Nothing too special about it.

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StormBerlin

I think they're kinda cool. Now that I know they're not venemous, I'll prolly get the courage to pet one (if for some God forsaken reason I ever end up in Iraq)

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Mephisto2

No, but they're ugly and they're creepy...

LOL

That's half the "fun"...


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KellyC

an "Eight Legged Freaks" *reality*.....gives me the chills just looking at the pics...

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BigGov

I'm gonna be scared for a week now, thanks a lot.

BTW, there are spiders in the USA that can kill you too. Black Widows.

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Asuka{eve}

I dont understand why people say its this uber venomous, 25mph runnin, screeching, eat your guts out horror? BTW where are those Black Widows?

BigGov

Probably in your house and your yard right now.

Don't worry, the odds of being killed by one are less than winning the lottery (as in a handful per year, those killed are either the very young or elderly.) Hell you probably won't even see one unless you're an eagle eye.

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Nancy

that looks more like a freeking alien!

I'm so glad that I live in a Spider-free zone

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I saw a Black Widow in my garage last year..damn I was so freaked I killed it right away. Immediately after that, I regreted not putting it in a jar and umm....do what little stupid curious kids do......

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moonstrucksoul

ok, i will admit a few things here,

one. i don't like spiders.
two. i kill spiders if i find them in my house or encroaching on my doorstep.
three. i would't mind owning a tarantula, I've held them twice and it didn't bother me.
four. I do what little stupid curious kids do. i once trapped a rather sizeable spider in a glass jar, slid a piece of paper under neath, lit the paper on fire, and watched the spider have a massive panic about its' impending doom.

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Aletheia

I see black widows all the time. We got a ton in my parent's backyard. They love the valley of CA.

bermuDa

i wouldn't want to be anywhwere near a solifugae, they prefer to hunt at night (their venom is anaesthetic so they like to feast on the flesh of sleeping mammals), but they are very territorial and those 4-way mandibles can produce a pretty powerful bite.

where's my raid, i'm not sleeping without it tonight...

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ChrisJericho

I felt physically sick in my stomach looking at that.

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qtpye4u84

I would like to get one to scare my nieces lol.
I kill spider's but only if they are in the house.

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Jizzosh

I also don't like spiders, but only if they are in my space. Outta sight, outta mind...

However, I rarely ever kill any bugs, except mosquitos because those f*ckers exist only to piss me off and I don't think they'll ever be in danger of extinction.

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Daval

If I ever saw a spider like that I would probably start shrieking like a little girl.

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rockogre

Now that was interesting, especially the video. I have Wolf spiders in my shop that get a little bigger than a silver dollar and they are agressive but I haven't seen one take on any of the scorpions or centipedes wandering around the place.

I also get large Black Widows in the shop. They are kind of beautiful in their own way.

Other than my occasional killing sprees, we all sort of just respect each others space.

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iamnormal

Can we get something strait.
Camel spiders are NOT spiders.
They are Solfugids.

InTeGrA77

Wow, just another reason to hate bugs and to be scared of sleeping in my own bed tonight...!

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Redjake

my kindergarten teacher got bit by a black widow and almost died. she was asleep when she got bit and her husband tried to wake her up in the morning and she didn't. emergency room and all that good stuff. we had a substitute for about a month and a half.

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hu-man

I saw this a couple of days ago. Damn they look so HUGE! It's a good thing that the angle makes them look bigger, because those things looked like the kind of spider who would crawl up your leg and bite you in the face... eek.

jwoody

When I'm grown up, I want to be a rockogre.

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Farm

Spiders freak me out in general. These things just are over the top for me.

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Giant Hamburger

Between hairless ape and non-poisonous Solfugid, if I had to choose the lesser of evils, the Solfugid is the obvious choice.

anleja

*SCREAM*

Actually, they look scary, but are merely only a bit annoying when they perch on your shoulder and beg you for a bite of the pizza you are eating.

water_boy1999

That's nuthin......
I see huge spiders all the time where I live. I witnessed a black widow (huge one) take down a preying mantis on the first day I moved up here. It was beautiful to watch the battle between the two of them. We also have Brown Recluse spiders here which are much worse than the black widow.

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tkkfan

I saw that pic last week on snopes. I cant even stand little spiders....


My dad thought my mom was playing a trick on him once with a tarantula. We walked in the garage and it was just sitting there, he said haha, 'cause she was teasing about spiders b4, and he went over and picked it up....damn its hard to finish this....he totally freaked out. Spiders give me the willies.

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odu_sonar_AE

My wife is definitely anti-spider. I'm the designated spider killer of the household.

When I was going through some military training in Florida, I noticed almost all of the "nasty bugs" (spiders, roaches, etc) were so much bigger than I was used to seeing in Virginia.

Paradise Lost

How could you stand going to an area where you know
TONS of BLACK WIDOW SPIDERS live all the time?!?!?!

If I even ever saw one, even remotely close to my house, let
alone inside of it, I'd move as far into Northeastern Canada as
I possibly could.

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shalafi

Can I come live with you Nancy? Friggin things are all over the place down here.

kutulu

They have camel spiders in AZ although I've never seen one.

Black Widows are scary, but they leave you alone if you leave them alone.

sadistikdreams

I love spiders.
What's a Solifugids?
"Solifugids are a relative of spiders and are sometimes referred to as sun spiders, wind spiders and wind scorpions. They have 4 powerful chewing fangs, they lack venom but some species will regurgitate digestive fluid on their prey, the 2 front arms have suction cups witch are used to help them climb and to pull themselves or there prey into there fangs in the same fashion as a squid or octopus grabing prey with there tentacles, some of the larger species of solifugids feed on lizards, small birds, frogs and rodents but most feed on insects, they have 2 eyes and the daytime hunters have better eyesight than the nocternal ones. "

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charlesesl

Yes they are ugly, and they are creepy. But they keep the scorpian population in check. Ever animal has its use on this world. (Except those really dumb ones that dersive to die)

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mingusfingers

At least they don't make your penis explode.

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onodrim

I'm very rarely bothered by insects of things at all like them, but those Camel Spiders...*shudder*.

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Esoteric

Holy shit...

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