Spider

[Mustangless]

I just found IMO a big spider. This thing is alittle bigger than a 50cent piece and is dark brown. I moved something out of the way and it was up under it and tried escaping out the back door. I got my dogs flea spray and blasted it 3 times. It then started flopping around for about 10 seconds.

But now I think its just playing dead. So I put a cup over it that says spider. I don't really care for spiders. Feel like i have stuff on me now.

Maybe it can't escape from that.

 

[HISSIN50]

We gots lots of them buggers here in the desert. Where do you live? Pics?

 

[Mustangless]

I am not moving the cup

I live near a city, but its kinda in the woods.

 

[bimmertech]

try finding one of these in your boot. these things are freakish--i have had one chase after me before(i was in the back of a truck), it kept trying to jump in the back while running.

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[Mustangless]

^I have read were some guy in iraq was being chased in his room by one of those. Then some other guy came in and it went after him.

 

[trav_19]

hahahah you wont move the cup huh thats funny..is it a paper cup? if so i would step on it then you would know its dead...also whats IMO?

 

[drakesdad]

Here is what happens when the camel spider bites....

 

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[xr8d302]

they're usually not looking to bite people unless the person pisses them off....Camel spiders search for shade, and if you're the only thing that produces shade, then they're gonna run to you.

That said, don't play with them

i had a pet scorpion when I was in afghanistan, kept him in a Folger's Coffee can and fed it bugs whenever we could find something for it

Freakin thing could sure as hell sting pencils...

 

[drakesdad]

they're usually not looking to bite people unless the person pisses them off....Camel spiders search for shade, and if you're the only thing that produces shade, then they're gonna run to you.

That said, don't play with them

i had a pet scorpion when I was in afghanistan, kept him in a Folger's Coffee can and fed it bugs whenever we could find something for it

Freakin thing could sure as hell sting pencils...

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[zZsKyZz]

If I saw a spider that big I'd def. have a shotgun with me...

Damn, anyone notice that the girl here in the ad for True right next to this quick reply box is pretty damn hot? especailly with the whole black bra/big boobs thing..

 

[donkey_punch]

WTF never heard of them before.

 

[parchisi]

Yeah, camel spiders wont' actually "chase" you, but the sunlight reacts with the skin and it hurts like hell for them, so they try to find shade whereever they can. If you are the shade, and you start running, they're coming after that shade.

 

[5.0_GT_kid]

Probably a Wolf spider, they're pretty much harmless.

 

[SeventyMach1]

Probably a Wolf spider, they're pretty much harmless.

Agreed.





As far as camel spiders ...... do some research on them. They're completely surrounded by myths. Notice the photo & the way it was taken. Sure, they're big ..... but .......

 

[Umbra_Lupis]

any spider + boot = problem solved

 

[Danman765432]

That is not a camel spider bite...its a brown recluse bite and im not going to post the pictures but this link provides you day by day pictures if you were bit by a brown recluse....They are commonly found in christmas trees...

http://www.insectimage.com/Gallery%2018/brownrecluse.html

Just click the arrows to move the days

Here is what happens when the camel spider bites....

 

[HISSIN50]

Brown recluse spiders are a biggie here too. I have a family member whom was bit and the bite was necrotic.

 

[bimmertech]

As far as camel spiders ...... do some research on them. They're completely surrounded by myths. Notice the photo & the way it was taken. Sure, they're big ..... but .......

i've read all the data that says it is myth, and i do agree with most of it.

however i have been in the back of out expiditer truck(aka the bread van) on the flight line when a spider kept running after the truck and trying to jump in the back--keep in mind speed limit on the flight line is 10mph and the back of the bread van is about 1.5' tall. he never made it in, but he sure did try.

the 2 that the guys in the pic are holding are about 3" long. a 3" long camel spider was the norm in saudi(we were literally in the middle of the desert).