-JQ- Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Camel spiders? Tell me this is fake... http://www.camelspiders.net/large-camel-spider-picture.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighVelocity Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Nope, not fake. I hear they can run 40mph and like the taste of polymer too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireant Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Look here yes, and no at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisStock Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 (edited) The ones we had aound our FOB were a lot smaller than that, but nasty as all get out. We had someone in my unit get gnawed on while they were sleeping back in '91. She lost a largish chunk of calf muscle and didn't feel a thing while it was happening. NASTY looking wound. OTOH, we used to saw the bottoms off of a pair of 2 liter bottles, and drop a camel spider in one end and a scorpion in the other. In the half dozen bouts I witnessed, the spider never lost. The things we did in the combat zone to alleviate boredom... ETA: regardless of what snopes says, I saw it firsthand with my own 2 eyes. Edited July 11, 2008 by ChrisStock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-ManBart Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Those are on the large side, but I suspect some of that is the camera angle/perspective. Typically they'd be about the size of a baseball or less. Still, they're pretty ugly critters and they can move really fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel1212 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 That ain't no spider.....this is a spider! Worlds biggest, by weight. Big ones span a dinner plate with their legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Acckk.... I refuse to even look at the pictures. Icckk. Where'n heck was God when spiders were created...????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin c Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Spiders six to eight inches across are common in some parts of China. Ask me how I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 I don't want to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwit Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Sig Lady, I thought you were more brave. KEVIN C: How do you know - - any pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyZip Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 We have the same creature here in the Coachella Valley in California. I will typically find them in the bottom of the corner protector bin when it is empty. I think they like to hide there and eat whatever falls into the bin. They are called Wind Spiders here. They will carry their babies on their back like a scorpion too which looks almost garish when seen for the first time. We used to pit them against scorpions also when I was a kid. Cool to watch a large one eat a gecko or small lizard! JZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 "Sig Lady, I thought you were more brave. " Not when it comes to 'piders!! Icckk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el pres Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 I dont like any insect that you cant kill with a shoe and not mess up the shoe !!! Potato bugs, Hissing Roaches, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huston in Austin Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Typically, what size shot do you use for the 12 ga to kill the spiders? Personally I like #4's. ALL SPIDERS MUST DIE, except the non-poisonous ones, which means, ALL SPIDERS MUST DIE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JQ- Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 #4 sounds about right for most...I'm think 00 for those though...slugs maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 I was looking for a pic of a Vinigaroon, we have them here and they look like those camel spiders. I found a forum all these folks that LOVE and breed all kinds of spiders It seems there are some VERY VERY creepy people out there I saw some spiders #4 aint gonna do it...Im thinkin slugs Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Di Vita Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 You guys can just rock me to sleep tonight..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSEMARTIN Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Craig Nelson, a shooting buddy from my Michigan days, got bit by one of these spiders when he was deployed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdstihl Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Did he live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bierman Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Those are certainly scary looking and I'm sure the bite hurts like hell, but in my experience the small spiders are the ones you really need to worry about. I got bit by a brown recluse several years ago and it damn near killed me. Three days in the hospital and several wound debridement sessions later and I still have a nasty scar that covers the back of my left calf almost from knee to ankle. Ever since then, I have developed a pretty good case of arachnophobia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwit Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 What nice sounding, innocuous terminology they have at the hospital --wound debridement. Was it actual surgery or scraping and removal of dead tissues ? -- ouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bierman Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 No surgery, just the scraping and removing part. It didn't tickle, not even a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JThompson Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 http://humanelement.blogspot.com/2007/08/l...r-in-world.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Suber Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 We have Brown Recluses and Black Widows around here. Not big spiders but nasty none the less. I have found black widows in 45 ACP brass and in the car we use as a prop on our range. I frequently find Black Widows in my water meter at home. the biggest we have around here are Wolf Spiders. "Supposedly" they are harmless to humans but I don't like them. When I was tearing out the framing of an old shop at my first house, I used to watch them jump on cockroaches. They would tackle them and then drag them into their holes. Pretty freaky. I HATE spiders. Terrified of them. I am in the process of sealing my HVAC system under my house and the fact that brown recluses and black widows like dark places makes me very nervous when I am under there. Eeeek! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hzkrgrle Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 OK.. I have to agree with majority of you. Spiders are the ones that I am scared of the most. My boyfriend seems to find it funny every time I run across one outside or in the house I scream & run the other way. My oldest son got a plastic spider one year for Halloween, well now my boyfriend finds it even more amusing by placing it in places where I will run in to it & causes me to scream. One of these nights he's going to come home to find me lying on the floor from a spider induced heart attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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