Got sent this in an email. are those things real????

 

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FOUND IN IRAQ !

 

They run 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out

at night unless they are in shade. When they bite you, you are injected with

Novocain so you go numb instantly. You don't even know you are bitten when

you are sleeping, so you wake up with part of your leg or arm missing

because it has been gnawing on it all night long.

 

If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting a shadow

over it, and the sun makes contact with it, you better run. It will

instantly run for your shadow, and scream the whole time it is chasing you.

 

PS. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top. These are Spiders

found daily in IRAQ by our troops. Imagine waking up and seeing one of these

*******s in your tent!!

Just found this: Camel Spider: This species possesses no poison and relies on strength and speed. It is carnivorous and lives on a diet of insects, spiders, scorpions and small lizards. It is so voracious that it will feed until it is too bloated to move effectively. Prey is held between the forceps of the Chelicerae and chewed with such vigour that a solifugae eating a beetle can be heard over a distance of several metres.

Camel spiders I presume.

 

I think its a half truth. Do a search and you will find that the spiders stop when they reach your shadow.

I doubt they are going for the kill, just to get out of the deadly heat.

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

 

I found this too, which says they same thing and the tales of flesh eating spiders is rubbish.

More searching, they can bite but is not harmful. They dont eat camels either ;)

all spiders are venomous its just the strenght that varies

one species of snake will head for your shadow saw scaled vipers echis

horrible little gits to handle