my skin is f@kInG CRAWLING

[loopcycle]

i just went upstairs to get something to drink before bed. i look down and see a thing like a spider moving around on the stairs - but its not a spider. it looks like it has TEN LEGS AND THE FACKING THING HAS JAWS!

i dont have my camera with me, but i found it online pretty quick. look at this shit.

http://kaweahoaks.com/html/wind_scorpian.htm

http://museum.utep.edu/archive/arthropods/DDsolpugid.htm

it looks almost identical to the last link. exact shaped head with two little dots for eyes. it ran really fast when it got scared but i caught it.

so i guess its a solpugid/camelspider/windscorpion. its one of these:

http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/camelspider.htm

the one i caught is about 1-1.5 inches long and it doesnt look like it crawled out of an alien pod but the head is identical with those jaws.

[loopcycle]

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0407/feature5/index.html

[Persephone]

I'd slit my wrists if i ever caught that in my house.

[GroovyDude]

I'd slit my wrists if i ever caught that in my house.

I don't know about suicide, but I would most likely crap my pants, then proceed to packup my stuff and move.

[GorroXXII]

where in GOd's name do you live... I need to add it to my NEVER visit list!!! :eek2:

[atomicbob]

We used to call those things vinegarunes (sp?) when I was a kid in the Palm Springs area. They would live around date palms.

Pretty gnarly bug.

:yippee:

[Kernel Error]

I HATE BUGS!!!!!! y did i have to look at that damn link. damn you now ill be seeing that thing all day.... :thumbsdown: :jester:

[GorroXXII]

I HATE BUGS!!!!!! y did i have to look at that damn link. damn you now ill be seeing that thing all day.... :thumbsdown: :jester:

pffttt... my ExEx-Girlfriend was a Major Arachnophobic... and many moons ago we were driving to dinner in her 86 Pontiac Firebird(she drove fast) going down a main rode, when a little itsy bitsy spider ran across the inside windshield... All I remember was a cloud of smoke as she locked the car up, and the squealing of tires, as we slid off the road into a dirt Parking lot, Thank GOD that lot was there wityh no trees... I mean she almost went into shock... your Ihate bugs reminded me of that... I found the reason why, but it is a long, drawn story... I myself Donot like snakes(not you SNAKE) but the long slithering ones.... :yuck: in the 3rd grade I was chosen to help out in a school thingy, I was picked with 3 other students to help hold a Python, and the guy said to me, if everyone let go, the python would wrap aroundthe third guy(that was ME) talk about shaping young minds, I mean that was over 20 years ago, and I remember that day to a tee...ok, Back on topic, that is one ugly spider...

[DemonEyes]

That is definitely a creepy looking thing geez, I'm not usualy afraid of spiders, I will always remember the movie Aracniphobia hehe. But looks like a nasty little critter. The strongest jaw strength relative to size on earth, sounds like a bit from that little bastard would hurt. :mgboxedin: :flamethrower:

[moldykorn]

I had a dream that a camel spider was making a web over my head while I was in bed(I know it rhymes, shut up). And it scared the piss out of me because it jumped down and went under my bed.

tp://noleftturns.ashbrook.org/images/camel_spider.jpg



"This photograph of a pair solifugids belonging to the genus Galeodes has been circulating around the internet along with horror stories about the 'danger' they pose to troops. The solifugids appear disproportionately large as a result of having been photographed from a very close distance with a wide angle lens."




Theres two of them. But you can see where one ends and the other begins.

*Thanks to madscouts post for giving me the idea to google the species itself*

[DemonEyes]

Jesus christ those must be mutant ones, yet another reason you don't wanna be in Iraq, foot long scorpian/spider things that are creepy as hell.

[=HR=Gumby!!!]

*runs away*

[monos]

man now i'm gonna half to sleep with the damn light on. :lookaroundb:

[loopcycle]

i caught it in a house in placerville, california. elevation 2000-2500, foothills of the sierra nevadas.

ive never seen one of these things IRL and didnt know about them until i found it and searched online. you'd probably never see one unless it ran into your house and you found it at night since they are fast nocturnal hunters.

when i put the glass over it, it ran up to the downturned lip of the glass and put one of its antennae or legs underneath, like it was reaching for an escape route. it was able to crawl up the vertical smooth surface of the glass. after i turned the glass upward and put it on the counter to check it out, it backed up from me, raised its furry antennae and opened its mandibles.

seeing an insect with two beaks is really disconcerting. im glad it was not a scorpion. scorpions freak me out. i am not fond of anything arachnid.

i finally went to sleep last nite and let it outside in the morning. it eats scorpions, so it cant be all bad. supposedly, the bite is not poisonous, just very firm.

[Vryllyn]

And people wonder why I hate Spiders. :flamethrower:

[Bonez]

glad i live in canada, worst i have to worry about is some big ass bear in my back yard.

[karl_58sow]

Ewww Camel Spiders... I'd love to catch one tho and take it home with me =)

[Bonez]

Ewww Camel Spiders... I'd love to catch one tho and take it home with me =)and have it bite and kill you in no time flat.

[Mad5cout]

I just have to make a disclaimer for Muldy's picture. People were circulating that around the Internet a while ago saying that those bugs are as big as that dudes thigh. In actuallity, it is a forced perspective shot (done by mistake no doubt) that makes them look huge. Those camel spiders are no more than 3 inches if I remember right when I looked them up on-line. I also must confess, I am deathly afraid of spiders... :mgboxedin:

[Nelle]

:O :O :O :O :O :O :O



OMFG!!!!!!!!



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I freaking HATE spiders!!! Seriously... I'm a acracnaphobe.....however you spell it.

[Goldragon]

if i found one of those in my house, i'd burn down my house, and the surrounding houses, flood the remains with acid, wash the place with a high powered hose, and then rebuild.

i hate spiders. any kind.

[Father Goose]

OH MY GOD THOSE ARE IN MY PARENT'S HOUSE!

Last summer my wife and I lived there while we were inbetween house closings. I was staying up late for a night shift and a sun spider crawled out.

I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO TERRIFIED OF A SPIDER EVER IN MY LIFE. If you haven't seen one in real life, you JUST DON'T GET IT.

Seriously. Worse than tarantulas even though it's much smaller. It DOES have huge jaws! I caught it despite my fear and we fed it a cricket-

It picked it up, impaled it on the jaws, sucked the guts out, dropped the carcass, and stood there waving those front arm/feeler things like, "Got some more, puny little human?"

My dad, a Vietnam vet, said quietly, "Get that damn thing out of my house right now."

Seriously. I'm sure there are worse spiders somewhere else. But Colorado is cold enough to kill most of the big spiders and other bugs.

[DemonEyes]

Makes me feel better that in Minnesota, its cold, or wintery for like 8 months outta the year, thus limiting the creepy crawly thingys that inhabit the world.

[Kev Kanos]

WTF WAS THAT THING. That cant live on earth. Must be from somewhere else, like kentucky. HAHAHAHA

[Nelle]

where in GOd's name do you live... I need to add it to my NEVER visit list!!! :eek2:

Ditto!!!


I also must confess, I am deathly afraid of spiders... :mgboxedin:

Double Ditto...

[FiLTHY_SNiPER]

That is ****ed.

... just ...

****ed.