Camel spider

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp



What the!? Whats your opinion? Is this real? I am amazed.
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  • Reply 1 of 30
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Why wouldn't this be real?
  • Reply 2 of 30
    vargasvargas Posts: 426member
    *shudder*
  • Reply 3 of 30
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    the links pretty clearly come down on the side of 'myth'



    edit add:



    a real arachnid (but not a spider), that is real scary looking,

    but nothing like the "venomous, flesh eating" tabloid version.

    thankfully.
  • Reply 4 of 30
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    I don't know about that. What's this page about?



    http://www.faunaimportuk.com/careshe...rcaresheet.htm
  • Reply 5 of 30
    vargasvargas Posts: 426member
    How to care for your Camel spider, evidently





    I know just how to care for mine, introduce it to my hammer
  • Reply 7 of 30
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    So the creature is real but it's abilities are grossly overstated.
  • Reply 8 of 30
    709709 Posts: 2,016member
    I loath spiders.
  • Reply 10 of 30
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    The spider is real (movie) But I sure hope they don't get that big! I'm gunna have nightmares!
  • Reply 11 of 30
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Quote:

    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.
  • Reply 12 of 30
    akumulatorakumulator Posts: 1,111member
    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.
  • Reply 13 of 30
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    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.
  • Reply 14 of 30
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    http://www.ultimatepethabitat.net/solifugid.htm

    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.
  • Reply 15 of 30
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    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 ... )
  • Reply 16 of 30
    dviantdviant Posts: 483member
    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.
  • Reply 17 of 30
    moogsmoogs Posts: 4,296member
    I'd shit my pants if one of those things jumped onto me while on duty. GUH! "Yeah uhh, Sarge? Where do I get those conscientious objector forms?"
  • Reply 18 of 30
    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
    Forget Bombing OBL...



    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..
  • Reply 19 of 30
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    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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  • Reply 20 of 30
    vargasvargas Posts: 426member
    I loathe scorpions
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