The photo in the original link is deceptive... they're not that big in comparison to the soldier's legs... there are hands close to the camera holding the camel spiders.
I've seen bugs that look almost exactly like those on (rare) occasion in my house. Obviously not that big, but with the same elongated head and flattish abdomen. No visible thorax, though I didn't know if they had 6 legs and a pair of leg-like antennae or 8 legs.
I caught one once along with an earwig. I put them both in a cup and I assumed the earwig would devour it. Turns out the opposite happened, I came back to the cup the day after and the only thing left in the cup were the hind pinchers and legs of the earwig and the spider-like thing was gone.
I guess I know it's called a Solpugid/Solifugid now. The ones here are about the same size as most ordinary house spiders. I actually took a photo of one once because I wanted help identifying it, but I can't seem to find it now. Most people I asked online thought it was a termite.
There's a photo a bit down on the first page of a specimen from California. (for Eugene) They say it's about an inch in either direction. The second page has a bunch more.
The photo in the first link is true, but is taken in a weird fashion, that give the feeling it's has big as a thig. If you look carefully at the picture it's smaller than an hand (but sufficiantly big for my taste ... )
wow that thing is freaky lookin'.... that movie Giant posted especially... howd you like to have a few of those digging in your backyard? Looks like it has a damn beak.. Ugh.
eugene, we get those quite a bit here in the high desert...mostly found at night...have the nickname "sun spider"....freaky, but harmless...we also get small scorpions and tarantulas and centipedes...by far i loathe the centipedes the most...nasty things
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a real arachnid (but not a spider), that is real scary looking,
but nothing like the "venomous, flesh eating" tabloid version.
thankfully.
http://www.faunaimportuk.com/careshe...rcaresheet.htm
I know just how to care for mine, introduce it to my hammer
Originally posted by 709
I loath spiders.
That's good, because the Camel Spider is not actually a spider.
See? no problem. . . everything's cool.
I caught one once along with an earwig. I put them both in a cup and I assumed the earwig would devour it. Turns out the opposite happened, I came back to the cup the day after and the only thing left in the cup were the hind pinchers and legs of the earwig and the spider-like thing was gone.
I guess I know it's called a Solpugid/Solifugid now. The ones here are about the same size as most ordinary house spiders. I actually took a photo of one once because I wanted help identifying it, but I can't seem to find it now. Most people I asked online thought it was a termite.
http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/b.../Solifugid.htm
There's a photo a bit down on the first page of a specimen from California. (for Eugene) They say it's about an inch in either direction. The second page has a bunch more.
just flush him out of one of those darned caves of his with those frikkin spiders..
All we need is some voulunteer to open all the cages as we fly over...in a Hercules transport....
Whose putting their name down..?
Segovious....you just pulled the short straw...
Tough luck it was nice knowing ya hehe..
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