Pets – I thought y'all might be interested in one more inconvenience that our troops endure in Iraq. We have some brave young men and women that deserve better treatment when they return. How would you like to wake up to this.
Nasty little buggers.
There is always something else to mess with your mind in war.
Then again I remember hearing about snakes in Nam that would swallow a man whole. If it is not one thing it's another. War is hell enough without all the freaking insects and snakes,lizards,frogs... that add to the misery.
I think I hated the damn insects the worst. LOL
Leeches,g.d.frigg'n leeches.Just typing it makes my skin crawl.I pulled those nasty g.d. things off of me and my buddy's more times than i care to remember.Fu--'n leeches,DAMN.
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Yeah, they were terrible, they are insectas right? Because I was including them and the damn dive bomber mosquitos. The freaking flies and ants too. Couldn't eat anything without some freaking bug in it or around it. Trying to sleep with things crawling all over you. I still wake up throwing off my covers and shaking when I feel something crawling on me or dream it.
Ugly little things. They are not really spiders. I'm glad most of the things about them are myth. Only biting you is bad enough as big as they are, thank goodness they have no venom.
you're right
but since they have no venom they must kill by biting, not by poisoning
and that means they can bite extra hard
plus they are insanely fast, and can move about the same as a man running and are called 'wind scorpions' sometimes
a soldier I know put a large one in a double heavy cardboard box, and it chewed thru it, no small feat for an arthropod.
the soldier got bit by one a few months later while moving boxes in a warehouse. they were bit on the back of the hand.
they said he it was basically like getting stabbed with an awl or a sharpened screwdriver
I said if that woulda happened to me I woulda fainted
there is a video where one is eating a lizard
any bug that can best a reptile and eat it....*shudder*
Spiders get a bad rap. I used to have a pet taranchula and nobody liked him either. Got so bad my boss stopped letting me take him to work. Gave him a complex.
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These are some big suckers. I feel sorry for them men over there. My wife has a fit if a little one gets in the bathtub.
We have the same thing here in the high desert in Central Oregon except locals from way back have always called them potatoe bugs and yes they are quite ugly,agressive and fast when they want to be.
Your wife isn't the only one ranch.
My wife saw this and she said she ain't never going there. Nasty things. Ha Ha.
Nasty things is right. If I saw one of these creepy spiders anywhere near me I'd have a fit as well.
ranchhand,
Have you even read the article you've posted? It says that the picture is misleading and that the spiders don't grow bigger than about 5-6 inches. It also says all kinds of legends are being spread about them, but these spiders hunt for small prey, like scorpions, are not poisonous and hide under rocks.
LOl You don't think a 5-6 inch spider is big? This is why I used snopes to show the story and not some of the other sites. This site will show the truth and the rumors. You are allowed to make your own decision on the evidence.
But National Geographic says the spiders don't get bigger than a teacup. Who are those people posing with something that looks to be a at least a third of the length of an adult human's body? Is this like the infamous 9/11 photo of the "tourist" on top of the WTC right before impact?
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://anim...
Are you sure you got the right spider?
I'm sure.
Meso, if you look at the bottom of the page there is a link to more info. Read the one from Nat Geo. It says that while they are not actually spiders, they are arachnids and that they can reach up to 6" long. That's even bigger than my tea cup.
But what about my link? Why isn't anyone interested in *my* little link? ;-(
Your link says the same thing, 6 inches. I guess it's a big cup. It's good information.
"Camel spiders, also called wind scorpions and Egyptian giant solpugids (SAHL-pyoo-jids), are only about 6 inches (15 centimeters) long."
I liked your link too. It just confuses me a little. It too says 6", followed by saying "size of a tea cup". What up with that?
your link has a little picture of one next to a tea cup for scale and says, 'size relative to a tea cup', not that they 'don't get bigger than a teacup.' [all species have their Shaq's, and no science-y type rag would say that last thing]
also the link refers to it as an 'insect', when the pic shows one with 8 legs, not 6.
I think they are more closely related to spiders and scorpions.
I am tempted to take NG word for it that they're insects, but something tells me they are arthropods and arthropods are not insects.
but anyway it's an odd thing to argue over and I'm no expert, and a quick googling netted me no good info
oh well, I'll guess I'll still manage to sleep at night
knowing we're keeping the camel spiders over there, so I don't have to wake up to one here
Ok but this story here clearly implies that the "Shaqs" are a dime a dozen when the average size of the adult spider is only about 6 inches. If there were some giant mutant spiders chasing down our troops like leopards stalking antelope on the serengeti, then there'd be no need for trick photography. I don't know... I'm starting to think stumbling into this thread is some sort of punishment for allowing my National Enquirer subscription to lapse... ;-P