FARQ!!! How scary is this?

[Biff]

Now I consider myself pretty reasonable when dealing with insects. Ok - so I shit out of catching a weta using my hands a couple of weeks ago and resorted to using a glass, but I'll pick up most insects, and have been known to even eat a few in my time, either voluntarily or accidentally (thanks Ms Biff for the organic broccoli).

But never in all my years have I screamed as much as I did when I first saw a camel spider. These things are big - fkin big, and fast too, and they can jump – high and far. A fkin nightmare. Although not technically spiders, they are arthropods.

I lifted up my rucksack and there the bstard was, and then it ran at me.

New pants please.

The second photo is the result of a camel spider bite - oh I forgot to mention they bite..............hard.

[skidz]

Just about enough to give you nightmares.

I think I'll stick to the basic NZ spiders.

[Big Dave]

Piss weak! - try walking across your kitchen at 2am and missing the Funnel Web rearing up to strike by a few mm. and then have it chase you up the bench top.

'One bite from that and there is no anecdote' - Smith & Jones.

[hXc]

Shit!!!!!!!

[White trash]

HA! You reckon those critters are scary? You aint seen Riff Raff just after she dropped the SV. Farken 'ell, I wanted to get right the fuck outta there....

[hXc]

HA! You reckon those critters are scary? You aint seen Riff Raff just after she dropped the SV. Farken 'ell, I wanted to get right the fuck outta there....

Haha. I would want to get out of there if anyone dropped an SV

[Lou Girardin]

Pathetic. I had pubic lice bigger than those things.
Sure beat sticking a sock down my shorts. Especially when they moved.

[SixPackBack]

Pathetic. I had pubic lice bigger than those things.
Sure beat sticking a sock down my shorts. Especially when they moved.

Bbbbbbbbbaaaahhhhh......we know where you got those lice from don't we sweety

[SixPackBack]

Bbbbbbbbbaaaahhhhh......we know where you got those lice from don't we sweety

Your a slapper bbbbaaarby........even grumpy old men...how could you [sob]

[Lou Girardin]

Bbbbbbbbbaaaahhhhh......we know where you got those lice from don't we sweety

Ssssshhhhhhh!

[Biff]

Pathetic. I had pubic lice bigger than those things.
Sure beat sticking a sock down my shorts. Especially when they moved.

You should have washed yourself with sugar water. It doesn't kill them but it sure does rot their teeth.

[Flyingpony]

Very scary arthropod! Glad I don't have to deal with those.
Imagine having one hiding under the toilet seat like they do in Australia!

[NC]

* Camel spiders can grow to be as large as dinner plates.

* Camel spiders can traverse desert sand at speeds up to 25 MPH, making screaming noises as they run.

* Camel spiders can jump several feet in the air.

* Camel spiders eat the stomachs of camels and lay their eggs there, hence the name "camel spider." (Legend includes the detail that camel spiders eat camel stomachs from either the outside in or the inside out. In the former case they supposedly jump up from the ground and grab onto camels' bellies from underneath; in the latter case exactly how spiders allegedly as large as dinner plates get into camels' stomachs intact remains unexplained.)

* Camel spiders are venomous, and their venom contains a powerful anesthetic that numbs their victims (thus allowing them to gnaw away at living, immobilized animals without being noticed). U.S. soldiers were said to have been attacked by camel spiders at night but remained completely unaware of their plight until they awakened in the morning to find chunks of their flesh missing.

[onearmedbandit]

Um NC, did you get those 'facts' of the snopes site, coz if you did you should have read further. If not, then click on the link above.

[Ixion]

* Camel spiders can grow to be as large as dinner plates.

* Camel spiders can traverse desert sand at speeds up to 25 MPH, making screaming noises as they run.

* Camel spiders can jump several feet in the air.

* Camel spiders eat the stomachs of camels and lay their eggs there, hence the name "camel spider." (Legend includes the detail that camel spiders eat camel stomachs from either the outside in or the inside out. In the former case they supposedly jump up from the ground and grab onto camels' bellies from underneath; in the latter case exactly how spiders allegedly as large as dinner plates get into camels' stomachs intact remains unexplained.)

* Camel spiders are venomous, and their venom contains a powerful anesthetic that numbs their victims (thus allowing them to gnaw away at living, immobilized animals without being noticed). U.S. soldiers were said to have been attacked by camel spiders at night but remained completely unaware of their plight until they awakened in the morning to find chunks of their flesh missing.

And , and , and, they are like those starfish things, if you chop one in half BOTH the halves grow back their missing bits (after a while obviously). The only way to kill them is to burn them.