Is This Real ??

[aly]

Someone just showed me this picture .. I'm not sure if its real, but if it is, these guys look cool!

*EDIT* I am adding a DEPENDS WARNING to this for those of you like YLL who wet your pants at this sight!

http://home.earthlink.net/~skeletor666/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/image001.jpg

[Pam]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Aly I don't know if they are real or not but I sure hope not!! YIKES! You are a lot braver than I am. I think they are scary ! I couldn't click off that picture soon enough! :) :rolleyes:

[Karen]

I wonder what they are! I wonder where that picture is from, they look real to me, whatever they are!

[RICHARD]

Probably Iraq.

Look at the legs, they have 'hair' on them-
probably to keep them from sinking in the sand and for traction.

camel spiders?

http://www.avpress.com/n/sp/troops/2003-05-04-5.hts

http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Pages/Pictures/camel.jpg

[DJFyrewolf36]

I'd hate to put a foot in my boot and encounter one of them! Ick!

[sirrahved]

Yuck eeewww gross. I thought wolf spiders were bad:rolleyes:

[catnapper]

Scary looking critters. Looks real to me. Have you ever seen documentaries on deep sea life? Sime of those anmals are very very scary!

I certainly wouldn't want to come across one.

[lizbud]

Cool, oh yeah, cool.......as in, frozen with fear.:eek: :eek:

[aly]

Hehehe, I wonder why I'm not scared... but for some reason they look really cuddly to me! Maybe I need to go hug one of my kitties or doggies, huh?

[Desert Arabian]

OH..MY..LORD! *shivers* *shakes* *screams*

You need to put a "Depends Warning" on this thread- I just peed my pants- that is the most digusting thing I have ever seen...it makes spiders beautiful...

I can't begin to tell you how sick I am and how loud I screamed...

[lizbud]

YellowLabLover,

Did you notice how close the photographer's sleeve was to
that creepy critter? Yikes....:eek: :D

[aly]

Sorry guys, I reread my post and felt bad that I didn't put any kind of warning in :o So I edited in a depends warning!

[moosmom]

EEEEWWWWWWWWW! Just imagine the "crunching" sound as you step on it!!

EEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!

[Nomilynn]

Originally posted by moosmom
EEEEWWWWWWWWW! Just imagine the "crunching" sound as you step on it!!

EEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!

I don't know that it would crunch.. I think it would just hoist you up and carry you away along with it!

SICK!!!

Aly, those are NOT huggable.. Josh put something funny in your soup last night!! :eek:

[popcornbird]

EWWWWW!!! Yuck! Some strange SCARY desert critters!!! :eek:

[Lady's Human]

That's actually a better pic of the critters than we have in our desert wildlife brief.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Lady's Human
That's actually a better pic of the critters than we have in our desert wildlife brief.



I try to keep ANY kind of life out of MY briefs.:eek:

[CountryWolf07]

Originally posted by lizbud
Cool, oh yeah, cool.......as in, frozen with fear.:eek: :eek:

Same here..

Aly.. you've just freaked me out.. Eek! *shivers*

[gini]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

This will give you more information than I ever wanted about the camel spiders.

Well, this is a PET site - but YUCK!

[lovemyshiba]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!

[CathyBogart]

YES, that is a real photo - But look closely. The man in the photo is golding it out on pliers, making it look much larger than it is. Camel Spiders are quite small - They MAX at a 5" or 6" legspan. They have absolutely no venom, or acid (I heard THAT piece of bull somewhere), and they do NOT actually eat through camel's stomachs. Why people believe these things is beyond me.

It looks like the bottom "spider" is actually a moult from the top spider...which would explain why it is so perfectly stretched out.

They're fascinating little critters, harmless, but FAST!

[aly]

Thanks so much WolfChan. I'm really glad you cleared that up because I just read some stuff on the link gini posted that scared me!

[IttyBittyKitty]

Urrrrrrrrgh!!!

5 inches is still big for me!

I am terrified of spiders and if I saw one of those for real, you wouldn't need depends, you'd need an AMBULANCE!

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[gini]

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcamelspider.html

Yes, here is more that verifies what WolfChan has told us.

Totally harmless! That's nice to know. But I still say YUCK!

[cloverfdx]

Aly they do look kind of huggable :D Thanks for the links they shall make interesting reading.

[lizbud]

Originally posted by cloverfdx
Aly they do look kind of huggable :D Thanks for the links they shall make interesting reading.


" Huggable" is not a word I would use for this critter.:D
"Interesting" maybe, but that's about it. LOL.:D

[Twisterdog]

OMG. That is simply HIDEOUS. I looked for about 1 second - and that was tooooooo long.

What horrid things. Harmless or not, I'm sorry, they are still horrid.

Bleck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Logan]

You guys have scared me into NOT looking!!!!! :eek:

[ramanth]

Thanks for the picture Aly and the info Wolfchan. :D That spider is definately interesting to look at. :)