These things are huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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 Novocaine 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 the troops. Imagine waking up and seeing one of these beauties in your tent!! :hurl:

my nephew is just back from Iraq and been telling us about them, as if it wasnt bad enough being bombed they have to put up with man eating spiders :xxx:

Another Urban myth

 

http://www.arachnology.be/pages/Solifugae.html

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0629_040629_camelspider.html

 

It isn't even really a true spider - It's an arachnid that's closer related to the Scorpion

 

Roll on Macca with facts! our resident Arachnologist/Entomologist ;)

p.s. venomous or not, it would still scare the urine outta me :D

Another Urban myth

 

http://www.arachnology.be/pages/Solifugae.html

 

It isn't even really a true spider - It's an arachnid that's closer related to the Scorpion

 

Roll on Macca with facts! our resident Arachnologist/Entomologist ;)

 

Whatever it is, it's bloody grim!! :hurl:

 

I find phobias almost stupid, but I fear I do have mild arachnaphobia as the things really do make me squirm....even though technically, as you say, it's not an arachnid. My brain tells me otherwise. lol

lol most spiders dont bother me, but the big f***ers that sprint at 100mph across the floor, admittedly scare the crap outta me :D lol they're bad enough... I'd pee myself if I saw one of the Sun Spiders hehe

 

Tegenaria gigantea (UK 'House spider')

 

(Distant relation to Wolf spider/Brown recluse) :judders:

The only spiders I can cope with are money spiders and those really slow moving skinny little things that are almost non-existant.

 

Anyway, I beat Macca with the facts...did a bit of research...without too much squirming and came across this.

 

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

like Goit says, a wind-up. the spiders are about 0.1mm away from the camera and are about the size of a germ :p they do have back-mounted rocket-launchers tho so keep away :eek:

Another Urban myth

 

http://www.arachnology.be/pages/Solifugae.html

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0629_040629_camelspider.html

 

It isn't even really a true spider - It's an arachnid that's closer related to the Scorpion

 

Roll on Macca with facts! our resident Arachnologist/Entomologist ;)

 

LOL I had a pair of those last year and they are harmless,the jaws are powerful so they could draw a little blood if one nipped you. A domestic cat would cause you more harm than one of those.

 

However its amazing what *****cks flys around the internet :rofl: ;)

please stop talking about spiders......absolutely terrified of them, I have to wear gloves when going to the coal shed :(

Yup, Camel Spiders def do not grow that big. The biggest I saw was about 2 cm long. I think they can grow a bit bigger, but not much.

LOL I had a pair of those last year and they are harmless,the jaws are powerful so they could draw a little blood if one nipped you. A domestic cat would cause you more harm than one of those.

 

However its amazing what *****cks flys around the internet :rofl: ;)

 

 

What you on about? 99% of the stuff on the inernet is probably *****cks ;)