Camel Spiders
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From: Warner Robins, GA
I was at Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB), Saudi Arabia in 1999. We opened up a communications man-hole that hadn't been opened in about 10 years. It had turned into a breeding ground for the camel spiders. There we literally hundreds of these camel spiders crawling all over this 8 X 8 hole in the ground...looked like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. None were anywhere near the size of the one pictured above, but still! Of course no sane person was going down in that hole with all those...creatures in there. So, we took the environmental unit (big air circulator) and sucked them out like a big vacuum. The exit port on the E-unit was chunking those C-spiders out like skeet...too bad I didn't have a shotgun handy...or a camera to take pictures of all those little buggers. I've since had a few nightmares about that day. Don't get me started on the time I had a run-in with a sand viper...to this day I still get cold chills. Boy, thanks for dredging up that memory.
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From: SouthWest Ohio
I don't care what Snopes or anybody else says, those suckers are bigger than five inches! Yea, maybe he's holding them close to the camera...but still! No way would I hold on to them like that soldier...no way. I'm gonna be seeing em in my sleep now.
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From: Boise, ID
Originally Posted by camo4stealth
That is a pseudo-scorpion. We have them here in the desert part of Idaho. Nowhere near that big. The largest I have seen was about 2 inches long. I wouldn't want to get bit by one. They chow on any other type of bug.
We have THOSE?!?!? Gah! Where in Idaho?
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From: Corpus Christi, TX
I've never had a run in with a spider that big. . .during the fall we get spiders that are a good 2" long, with hundreds of tiny baby spiders hanging on their back. I stomped on one in the garage, then noticed the ground was pulsing with black dots. Some Brake Kleen took care of the kiddos!
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From: Conroe, TX
If I was a solider over in Iraq and saw one of them things even thinking about moving in my direction, there would be a few .45 rounds in it(or is it now 9mm).
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From: Boise, ID
Originally Posted by ckrichard
If I was a solider over in Iraq and saw one of them things even thinking about moving in my direction, there would be a few .45 rounds in it(or is it now 9mm).
Chris
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If I'm not mistaken it's now 9mm. Sent courtesy of the M9 (Beretta 92FS).
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I just remembered a story from my younger days. A bunch of us were at a friends house hanging around in the basement. We were sitting around talking about who knows what. One of us spots the largest spider I have ever seen naturally - this thing was almost the size of a Tarantula!! I have never seen 18 and 19 year olds move faster in my life. I think 8 or 9 of us were upstairs and out of the basement easily in under 10 seconds! Little spiders I can handle if they keep their distance. Big ones.. I'm outta there! (Unless it's in my place.. then it has to be killed. Someone else's place? Well, they're on their own!!)
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Originally Posted by Caplax40
If I'm not mistaken it's now 9mm. Sent courtesy of the M9 (Beretta 92FS).
Ryan
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From: Conway Arkansas
Very big spiders...
Ive seen tarantulas as big as a dinner plate in South TX... not a pleasant sight
My buddy that just got back from Iraq said some of those Camel Spiders over there were that big or bigger..
They say they aren't deadly. but I say any bug that big will make you crap yourself to death
About the pistols.... M16s are for wussies
A semi-quote from "We Were Soldiers"
Ive seen tarantulas as big as a dinner plate in South TX... not a pleasant sight
My buddy that just got back from Iraq said some of those Camel Spiders over there were that big or bigger..
They say they aren't deadly. but I say any bug that big will make you crap yourself to death
About the pistols.... M16s are for wussies
A semi-quote from "We Were Soldiers"
Last edited by Andysutt; Apr 22, 2004 at 02:59 AM.
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From: Heart of Dixie
I live in north Alabama next to a creek, and i always see this one kind of spider when im pulling a steve erwin by the creek (catching snakes, turtles, frogs, fish, etc.). The spider looks like a wolf spider, but it can float across the water on its feet and can dodge pellet bullets, its weird. They can get pretty big, the largest ive seen was about 4 inches head to butt, with 5 inch legs, quite creepy.
But as for those camel spiders, i wouldnt have much of a problem with them as long as all they do is run and im alongside with mr. smith to my left and mr. wesson to my right. But if those things jump, that would be it for me, i cant stand jumping killing bug things like that. blehh
Drew
Oh yeah, just a random little fact my friend told me today, but the average human eats an average of 8 spiders a year in their food. Bon Appetit!
But as for those camel spiders, i wouldnt have much of a problem with them as long as all they do is run and im alongside with mr. smith to my left and mr. wesson to my right. But if those things jump, that would be it for me, i cant stand jumping killing bug things like that. blehh
Drew
Oh yeah, just a random little fact my friend told me today, but the average human eats an average of 8 spiders a year in their food. Bon Appetit!
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Thank God at least where I live you will see what is going to kill you. Spiders and snakes suck!
We have spiders (no snakes!), but none of them are going to kill you!
Those things are not natural!
I will take a moose or bear any day of the week over spiders and snakes!
We have spiders (no snakes!), but none of them are going to kill you!
Those things are not natural!
I will take a moose or bear any day of the week over spiders and snakes!