FARQ!!! How scary is this?

[Jackrat]

I don't like those bloody big ants in Aussie. You know, the ones that are bigger than an inch. The buggers take a big bit of meat when they bite.

Hmm yeah,I sat on one of them buggers at a mates place one night.
Thought I'd been bit by a snake or something.
Top quality pain,,,an a bit of panic thrown in just for good order.

[Waylander]

I'm sleepin with my boots on from now on.

A reacouring (sp?) dream I had when I was younger is comming back to me now. Was sleeping in bed when a big spider attacked. I'de jump around and chase it and it would run away. Next night same dream. On and off for a few months then one night I slept with my boots on and in the dream I stomped on the bugger. No more dream.

[Marmoot]

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

DAMMIT!! that's almost as large as my testicles!


(huh...sorry...I couldn't find a more-radical response when seeing the spider pic.....I hate spiders....and I thought tarantula is scary enough......)

[spudchucka]

I don't like those bloody big ants in Aussie. You know, the ones that are bigger than an inch. The buggers take a big bit of meat when they bite.

A girl I knew in Brisbane got bitten on the pink bits by one of those ants!

[scumdog]

A girl I knew in Brisbane got bitten on the pink bits by one of those ants!

And you're sticking with that story eh? You cannibal you!!!

[Wolf]

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.

And scars from wounds fade after a while - trust Ixion, he has reason to be very knowledgeable about starfish....

[Wolf]

The "Camel Spiders" are "solpugids" - "non-spider arachnids". Also called sunspiders, sunscorpions or windscorpions.

Solpugids are another of the eleven orders of Arachnids - scorpions, pseudoscorpions, spiders, harvestmen, solpugids, mites/ticks etc.

They are non-venomous - though more efficient at eating than spiders (though not as humane. If I were an insect I think I would prefer being poisoned to death before being eaten rather than torn apart, soaked in gastric juices and then ingested.

The biggest Galeodes caspius, is a native of Turkistan and measures up to 7cm.

Ferkin' ugly huas, tho' - think I'd rather encounter an orange-kneed tarantula - it'd have less revulsion factor.

[750Y]

A girl I knew in Brisbane got bitten on the pink bits by one of those ants!

our rugby team had a game in Brisbane. We all sat down under the posts at one end for a team chat (right on a bloody nest of the buggers!).
The other team had a great laugh at our expense, they feel like a bee sting which is not good up your shorts lol!

[Sparky Bills]

FAAARRRKKK TTHHHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTT!!!!!

[Lou Girardin]

A girl I knew in Brisbane got bitten on the pink bits by one of those ants!

Did you sic your anteater onto it?

[Pixie]

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.

I think there would be a very good anecdote...It's just that the victim would not be the raconteur.

[Pixie]

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.

Night of the Living Dead Starfish

[Pixie]

*
* 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.

Eeeeyeeww,wake up in the morning and your willy's missing!

[Sniper]

Ahhhh, camel spiders. They were great. Used to catch them in the desert and get them to fight each other. I'll see if I can find you a picture of me holding one