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Camel Wolf Spiders. I hated those darn things...their darn fangs were as big as two of my fingers. When you stepped on them, it sounded like you were stepping on a crab...they had a hard shell.
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Have you seen this picture and read the usual accompanying story about "camel spiders" or "Fallujah spiders" in Iraq that anesthetize and eat people alive? This is a hoax. The arachnids in the picture are not spiders, they are solpugids and they have no venom. They eat roly-poly bugs, crickets, and scorpions. And they aren't just in Iraq; they are found in deserts. There are some in the southwest U.S. Also, notice that the picture was taken to make these arachnids look bigger. Compare them to the partial hand on the right instead of the leg behind.
One walked into our tent and everyone freaked out, I threw a bucket over it and slid a piece of cardboard under it to catch it. We made a box to keep it in and fed it scorpions. It would tear a scorpion apart and crunch on it like it was nothing. The ones in Saudi were black and not that light color-they get big.
Yeah....the ones I'm talking about are probably bigger than that pic and they looked a little different. I was bitten by one while asleep one night and my arm swelled up as large as my leg.
Do they "run" pretty fast?
Those look like the things we call "Sun Spiders" out here in this desert. I have only seen ones that big out in Wonder Valley.
Do they "run" pretty fast?
Camel spiders are pretty fast, ran one of my marines up onto the railing of our balcony!
They actually are here in the U.S. although they are substantially smaller. The claims about Camel Spiders are completely bogus and they are not even technically spiders and are not venomous, although they can give a good pinch, but are solifuges such as (false spiders, haarskeerders, jagspinnekoppe, jerrymanders, roman spiders, sun spiders, walzenspinnen, wind scorpions).
One of my hobbies is raising Arachnids such as Tarantulas and Scorpions and Reptiles such as Monitors and Pythons.