Camel Spiders

[Budman]

So some of you natives tell me this. Are there camel spiders or something that looks like a camel spider that lives here in CO? The other night after I got home from the hospital, This big assed spider jumped off my nightstand and into the floor. I should have taken a picture of it, but I didn't. I smashed it too bad, then got rid of it.

I have seen a lot of Camel spiders in the ME, adn this one looked like I remember them looking. It was about 1.5 inches long, and had the killer chompers etc.



BTW: Do not tell my wife that I found and killed this thing. She is deathly afread of spiders, and would never sleep again if she knew it was there.


Educate me please

[MonkeyBomb]

Camel spiders???? Wolf spiders yes and this funky looking thing.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/Stemshot/IMG_3516.jpg

[creepycrawler]

I've seen some of these out here including one in the house.

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:-RWrzwB-s-DgRM:http://applematters.com/images/uploads/camelspider.JPG



Not a big fan of spidies myself.

[Budman]

Nope nothing like the wolf spider...


Like this

http://applematters.com/images/uploads/camelspider.JPG

[cjchamp]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.................big Spider = Verrrrrry Scary!

[jeeplvr79]

I killed one of those just last night.... they are huge and well not very friendly looking!

[oleblue]

10 legs? that aint a spider, that's :alien:

[creepycrawler]

10 legs? that aint a spider, that's :alien:

When I found the first one out here, I did some researching on them. The front two "legs" aren't legs at all but are "mouth parts". :eek:

They are also known as wind scorpions and are supposed to be able to move really fast but none of the ones I've seen moved very fast, or very far for that matter. :D

[Budman]

10 legs? that aint a spider, that's :alien:

You are correct. Not a spider, but sick just the same.

Edit: they also only have 2 eyes. Not sure what catagory they fall into, but they are sick...

[Budman]

The one's I ran into in the ME were runners like crazy. They would chase your arse all over.

[Oscar]

We coudl here them running across the hanger floor and it was a huge hanger

[oleblue]

When I found the first one out here, I did some researching on them. The front two "legs" aren't legs at all but are "mouth parts". :eek:

They are also known as wind scorpions and are supposed to be able to move really fast but none of the ones I've seen moved very fast, or very far for that matter. :D

You are correct. Not a spider, but sick just the same.

Edit: they also only have 2 eyes. Not sure what catagory they fall into, but they are sick...

who ever said CO4x4 was worthless. I just learned something here, :cool:
and yea they are sick, creepy sick. Yuk.

[Sound_Man]

We have a bunch of camel spiders on Carson now. They have come back with the redeploying troops. those things are fooking scary fast.

[creepycrawler]

We coudl here them running across the hanger floor and it was a huge hanger



How damn big were they? The ones I've found have only been 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.

[DaJudge]

We have a bunch of camel spiders on Carson now. They have come back with the redeploying troops. those things are fooking scary fast.
Damn! I DIDN"T want to hear that. :(

[IoN6]

Fawk. Those. Spiders. :eek:

[Budman]

How damn big were they? The ones I've found have only been 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.

The Me ones can be 4-5 in long

[Juzzme]

K ive never seen one of those kill em.... kill em all .... must have started out in rocky flats or somtin and i count ten legs and two big fang, venom sacks and little tine beady eyes " you cant trust any thing with beady eyes"

[Sound_Man]

http://www.fazed.org/blog/view/1/clock-spider/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpyjsFEt0xM

http://www.fazed.net/content/clock_spider/clockspider2.jpg

[Oscar]

They are big enough to give a cat a run for is money

[Sound_Man]

http://www.thedragonsden.net/soundman/terror_poster.jpg

http://eclipse-manga.isurf.ca/Images/Pubic.jpg

[virden]

http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/spiders/Solifugid.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae

[oleblue]

Okay, time to UNsubscibe to this thread - it's just giving me the creeps. :D

[Budman]

Cool thanks virden.

[Budman]

Okay, time to UNsubscibe to this thread - it's just giving me the creeps. :D

Sorry dude

[Sound_Man]

http://www.davelog.com/fazed/dst.jpg

[Cresso]

http://www.camel-spiders.net/Videos/CamelSpiderVideos.html

yep, i'm not sleeping anymore. ever.

[Budman]

Me either...

[virden]

anytime. I didn't know they were here either untill about 2 months ago my wifes friend called me screaming because there was one in her bathroom and her husband had just left for iraq.

[Sound_Man]

These are what you get to play with in Korea....

http://www.geocities.com/look_korea/Spider_Uijongbu.jpg



http://www.geocities.com/look_korea/index_korea.html

[Budman]

i didn't need to know all that fancy science stuff. I just know they are nasty, and I though I left them all in the ME. Then I got to thinking that they might have a nest in my Mobility bag or something... Emptied all that out tonight no nest...

[Budman]

These are what you get to play with in Korea....

http://www.geocities.com/look_korea/Spider_Uijongbu.jpg



http://www.geocities.com/look_korea/index_korea.html

MMM pretty. Reminds me of the spiders in grandma's garden.

[FirecrackerKTM]

i hate you all.

[virden]

http://www.gedcasserley.saddleworth.net/assets/images/Ged-spider02.jpg
http://www.rinr.fsu.edu/fall2004/images/hands2.jpg
http://www.extremescience.com/images/goliath-plate.gif

http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestSpider.htm

[Sound_Man]

http://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar05/deep/images/image3.jpg

[1BGDOG]

vinagroon?

http://images.google.com/images?q=vinegaroon&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=hdd&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

[oleblue]

Sorry dude
Not yer fault, I don't have to open the thread. I think the title is good enough to tell me that.:D

[starbreaker666]

Time for a mod to ban someone. I REALLY don't dig spiders...

[potter]

i have the chills now. even though spiders don't generally scare me unless they're freakishly huge.

[HaySeed77]

http://www.fazed.org/blog/view/1/clock-spider/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpyjsFEt0xM

http://www.fazed.net/content/clock_spider/clockspider2.jpg

that would be some drywall repair for sure. The 12 ga would make a mess out of that wall. A rolled up newspaper aint gonna do shit.

[scottycards]

When I opened this thread, I thought Bud might have a problem with his daughter picking up smoking the new kind of Camel cigs or something.

Apparently not. Now I've got the willies, big time. Glad I have 3 cats- they like spiders, and will bat them around, eat them, and generally keep them out of our lives around home.

Kittahs Rule!

[Tom N]

I almost feel bad for scaring my daughter last night with a wad of black thread I saw on the floor that looked like a spider. :eek:

[BalloonKnot]

Found one of these in my house few weeks back. I caught him in a bottle and kept him around a for a while because I thought I found a new species. I looked on web and they are supposedly a desert spider. Web page I found said they weren't poisonous. Fawking spiders scare the skirt right off me.


I've seen some of these out here including one in the house.

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:-RWrzwB-s-DgRM:http://applematters.com/images/uploads/camelspider.JPG



Not a big fan of spidies myself.

[CherryokeeXJ]

that would be some drywall repair for sure. The 12 ga would make a mess out of that wall. A rolled up newspaper aint gonna do shit.

:lmao:

[HaySeed77]

A little related story.

I worked at the Adams Mark Hotel in KC for awhile. One sunday afternoon after brunch, I was closing up the kitchen and went into the pastry kitchen to close everything up. On the floor there was a spider that was so big I thought it was fake. I walked toward it and it moved. I grabbed an aluminum pie pan and tossed it on top of him. It started moving across the floor! I grabbed a few cook books and set them on the pan with a note saying "big F'n Spider" shut off the lights and left.

The next day the mantainance guy was not too happy... He figured it must have come from the service elevator shaft about 20 feet from where he was. He said there were 4 or 5 that he had seen down there before.

[Sound_Man]

I work in a building that gets a lot of IT equipment in it that has been in one desert or another. The units bring that stuff in here and without failure one or two of those things comes out of their gear every time. I have seen guys jump up on top of 42U racks before trying to get away from them. Funny thing is they always climb up when they come out of the gear.

[ZooMad75]

http://www.camel-spiders.net/Videos/CamelSpiderVideos.html

yep, i'm not sleeping anymore. ever.

Holy cow I had to shut the 2nd video off it creeped me out so bad. watching that mouse flop around and then start squeeking after the spider nailed it a 3rd time was enough.

I'm not aracniphobic in the least, but plate sized spiders killing rodents and lizards is beyond normal. I don't think my wife would sleep for a month if I showed her, plus she'd have me sealing every window and crack shut permemantly in the house.

[LoopiJeepGirl]

GREAT............Why the H*** DID I OPEN THIS THREAD?


I am such a FREAK when it comes to SPIDERS........MAN, OH MAN!
I HATE MYSELF.....(& budman)..................:headbang:

[Oscar]

HE HE spiders huh oh fellas we might have a cure from at least on member of toe and her tagging

[Waifer2112]

Camel spiders???? Wolf spiders yes and this funky looking thing.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/Stemshot/IMG_3516.jpg

I have a bunch of these all around the eaves of my house every year at this time. They are harmless, and can barely walk, let alone run. Of course, I tell my g-friend that and she thinks I'm crazy.

I'm just glad I don't live in Australia. I hate these abominations of nature...

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/spider/funnelweb.gif

...They are poisonous, highly aggressive, and live all throughout the coastal areas. Fawk that!!!

[Oscar]

http://davidmichaelkennedy.com/blog/media/heather-banana-spider.jpg

[jeeplvr79]

^^^^^^^^^
Dang, that dude has some LONG fingers

[Sound_Man]

That is actually pretty small for a banana spider

[Tom N]

HE HE spiders huh oh fellas we might have a cure from at least on member of toe and her tagging

Team CAMEL Toe?:hail: :D

[AMMOtj]

Yes there are "camel spiders" in the U.S. Not as big as the ones in the middle east though.

On a side note, a friend I work with got bit on the chest by a black widow this weekend. Went home after work and a few hours later got hauled off the hospital and could barley breathe. He's been in the hospital for 3 days now, the doctors didn't want to give him the anti-venom because its some really nasty stuff. Sounds like he'll be ok, but it was a pretty painful experience from talking with him.

[AMMOtj]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

[jeepn4evr]

Okay, time to UNsubscibe to this thread - it's just giving me the creeps. :D


x2 this is like the train wreck you can't not look. I keep ckicking on the links thinking its gonna be something nice:headbang: . Spiders don't usually affect me until I saw these pics on here. I can see the cops coming after shooting that one with the 12g.

"yes this is oficer ----- we got a report of a shooting here, so you know anything about that?"

"Yes sir I just killed an 8 legged freak with my 12 g, wanna see pictures?"

[ColoradoXJ]

^&()%&*)&%&*^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm buying a gun. i hate fawkin spiders. oh, and waifer... i did live in australia for awhile and the huntsman spiders were the worst. they were everywhere and they're figgin HUGE...

http://i8.tinypic.com/4ua8ver.jpg

http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/australian_spiders.html

[Waifer2112]

^&()%&*)&%&*^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm buying a gun. i hate fawkin spiders. oh, and waifer... i did live in australia for awhile and the huntsman spiders were the worst. they were everywhere and they're figgin HUGE...

http://i8.tinypic.com/4ua8ver.jpg

http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/australian_spiders.html

Are they poisonous, too?

[Aaron]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

That was funny!

[jimfoo]

What do you know, there really are barking spiders!
BTW, I once saw some big, 4-5" spider with a fairly small body south of The Fort in Morrison. It wasn't a tarantula, it was fairly light colored and not very hairy.

"Australian tarantulas or bird-eating spiders are also called whistling or barking spiders. The name is due to the humming noise they can produce when they are disturbed or threatened. They can be found in most parts of Australia and they live in burrows which can be up to a metre deep.
Australian Bird-eating Spider

Their overall size is slightly bigger than the Huntsman Spider, but because their body is bigger, the fangs longer and the legs thicker and stronger, they look a lot bigger...

Despite their name they rarely eat birds. Mostly they eat insects like all Australian spiders do, but also lizards and frogs."

[ColoradoXJ]

Are they poisonous, too?

no, they are not. but they are friggin massive and will just show up out of no where like dammed 8 legged houdinis. however, death quickly comes to any spiders near me... ecological benefit be dammed (and that might just say a lot coming from me :P )

[Oscar]

awww wabbit popo scerred of spiders?

[ColoradoXJ]

wabbit popo gonna be carrying a gun... see my above post :D

[ColoradoXJ]

and... i went on a 2 week long trip of the outback with the rest of the exchange students and one night at this campground we saw a big ol' spidey that was about as big as my hand. so one of the girls puts her hand right next to that devilish creature and we take a picture. once we got back to melbourne and the pictures were developed, one of the host-parents recognized the spidey-thing as one of the top 4 most deadly spideys in the land down under... oops :eek:

[Oscar]

thats ok i am terrifed of snakes even big worms make me jump

[ColoradoXJ]

snakes i just steer clear of if i can... spiders make my skin crawl and haunt my dreams more than my ex ever did.

[old_man]

Youre all a bunch of Nancies. Growing up in Texas, I used to keep tarantulas for pets. If they bite you it swells up and you feel like you have the flu for about a week. Normally they won't bite, but I did find something that really pisses them off. Never....I say NEVER blow on them. They go nuts. Let me tell you that they have fangs that are almost a half inch long.

[Luv_Jeeps]

that would be some drywall repair for sure. The 12 ga would make a mess out of that wall. A rolled up newspaper aint gonna do shit.

Right there with you on that one.....

[ZooMad75]

Youre all a bunch of Nancies. Growing up in Texas, I used to keep tarantulas for pets. If they bite you it swells up and you feel like you have the flu for about a week. Normally they won't bite, but I did find something that really pisses them off. Never....I say NEVER blow on them. They go nuts. Let me tell you that they have fangs that are almost a half inch long.


LOL....So are you telling us you tried to "blow" a spider and got bit? the warped part of my mind omitted the "on" part of your sentance and stuck my funny bone. *still laughing*:laughing: :laughing:

[JeepWheelin02]

those things are fooking scary fast.

X2

My first trip in Iraq I chased one down on the ATV. It was about 5-6 inches across. I was doing 30MPH when I finally caught it and ran it over.

[oleblue]

That was funny!
I am NOT, repeat, I am NOT going to open that link.......















So far so good, I have not opened it yet.....










I will NOT open that link....

[RebelRescuer]

MonkeyBomb - yours is a Cat Face Spider. I have one living in my petunias and she's getting HUGE!

[creepycrawler]

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2007/ga070913.gif

[Oscar]

scardey cats

[AMMOtj]

I am NOT, repeat, I am NOT going to open that link.......















So far so good, I have not opened it yet.....










I will NOT open that link....

It's funny...you'll like it

[oleblue]

Funny Spider? yea, I will belive it when I don't see it. :D

[CherryokeeXJ]

All spiders I find in my house must die. They don't pay rent...fawk 'em.:shrug:

[Oscar]

sure they do the eat bugs for you

[CherryokeeXJ]

sure they do the eat bugs for you

This is so. However, the bugs they eat do not bother me near as much as they do. I'll take thirty earwigs over one spider any day. Flys, no problem. Moths, couldn't care less. Ants, who gives a chit? Lay some ant bait and voila. But spiders....oooh no....spiders are born straight from the depths of hell, and must be sent back with a tuft of toilet paper, and a swirly ride down the chitter.

[DaJudge]

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/bl/2007/bl070913.gif

[OrangeCrush]

god this thread is the debil

[jdbwrx]

What about the Brown Recluse. Gives you an ulcer if you get bit. Not fun.

http://www.brownreclusespider.org/brown-recluse-spider-bite-symptom.htm

[Oscar]

Brown recluses are the worst my old boss got bit in the calf. Lost a quarter size chunk of flesh it just kind of rots away.

[ColoradoXJ]

X2

My first trip in Iraq I chased one down on the ATV. It was about 5-6 inches across. I was doing 30MPH when I finally caught it and ran it over.

:lmao:

did you back up and run over it again? i sure woulda

[Yota]

My wife and I looked at this thread the other night and had a blast reading all the comments. Seems we're not alone in having the heebie-geebies.

I mean I love spiders - they're absolutely fascinating. But holy fawking hell there is nothing I'd want ON ME less than a spider... except possibly Rosie O'Donnell. :D

Seriously though, every time I look at pics of spiders or watch a show about them all of a sudden everything that brushes against me seems to cause me to smack myself. I look like I have the damn DT's. :D

[Budman]

Spiders as a general rule don't bother me that much.... When I was a teen I spent a lot of horseback time on old logging roads scouting for the guide service I worked for. You would ride through a spider web about every 5 or so feet. However Camel spiders... That is another thing all together. And the 3 women I live with absolutely lose thier minds in the presense of spiders.

BTW: You can come up with some creative ways to get rid of spider webs out in front of you.

[DaJudge]

http://www.gamerevolution.com/images/misc/spider_woman.jpg

However there are good spiders too:

http://www.pistonheads.com/pics/news/13433/ferrari_f430_spider-6-L.jpg

http://www.pistonheads.com/pics/news/13433/ferrari_f430_spider-7-L.jpg

[Budman]

:ban: :redx2: http://www.gamerevolution.com/images/misc/spider_woman.jpg

However there are good spiders too:

http://www.pistonheads.com/pics/news/13433/ferrari_f430_spider-6-L.jpg

http://www.pistonheads.com/pics/news/13433/ferrari_f430_spider-7-L.jpg

[cheftyler]

The two links go to the pistonheads logo :(

Or should I be doing a happy dance? :D

[cheftyler]

Funny Spider? yea, I will belive it when I don't see it. :D

No really, it is funny :D

[DaJudge]

The two links go to the pistonheads logo :(

Or should I be doing a happy dance? :D
They were supposed to go to pics of the Ferrari 430 Spyder.

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=16755

Is the 'black widow' OK or a red X?

[oleblue]

It's funny...you'll like it

No really, it is funny :D

Okay --


I.............opened that link. yes it was funny. :laughing:
























But it was still spiders........


Yuk. [quiver/shake]

[potter]

Is the 'black widow' OK or a red X?

No. It's not ok. It should have been a red X.

[Captain]

^&()%&*)&%&*^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm buying a gun. i hate fawkin spiders. oh, and waifer... i did live in australia for awhile and the huntsman spiders were the worst. they were everywhere and they're figgin HUGE...

http://i8.tinypic.com/4ua8ver.jpg

http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/australian_spiders.html



X2 on the Huntsman. I think spiders are pretty damn cool but I can stand them (or anything else, for that matter!) crawling on me!
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6da26b3127cce882e03b9436e00000016109AauGrlo3bi
This one lived in our mailbox for a while in Adelaide. It was just a baby one though, only a couple inches across. I had an adult one in my classroom once. I was reading with a couple of my kids and I noticed a commotion on the other side of the room, I told them to get back to work. A few minutes later they're still off-task so I repeat the message, and they say, "But Mr. Houghton, it's a really big one!" I look over and sure enough there is the biggest damn spider I've ever seen (other than Rosie at the Butterfly Pavilion) on the inside of the window. I caught it in a jar and we kept it for the day, and let it out in the woodpile behind my classroom at the end of the day.

We had another one living in our wall that my wife (who HATES spiders) affectionately called Fred, the spider she'd like to be dead:
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6705/1971/320/341860/Fred%20the%20black%20house%20spider%20%233.jpg
At first we thought Fred might be a funnel web, but after more research decided he was a black house spider - not usually life threatening, but you should seek medical attention if you get bitten. Fred lived peacefully for a while in the wall, but as soon as he decided to go live in the eaves he got a healthy (well, not so healthy in his case) shot of Mortein.

Still, they're nothing compared to those camel spiders. FAWK THAT! :eek:

[rubbersidedown]

No really, it is funny :D


It was even funnier when I posted it a few months ago!! :flipoff2:

[potter]

this thread needs more pics.

http://inequal.com/content/in/equal/spider1.jpg

http://inequal.com/content/in/equal/spider2.jpg

[cheftyler]

It was even funnier when I posted it a few months ago!! :flipoff2:

Yah yah yah, repost and all that :D As I recall I found it funny when you posted it a few months ago :flipoff2:

[creepycrawler]

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2007/ga070915.gif

[rubbersidedown]

http://bugguide.net/images/raw/V0GQO02QV0GQD0ZKO0PQC0RKNKQKV0ZKUKQKT0VQDKSKPKSK6K6QO08QV05QJ0WQTK9QA0LKPKSK.jpg

http://www.eyedesignbook.com/ch3/fig3-10d-spiderBG.jpg


http://www.lesjones.com/images/posts/spiderflower.jpg

[potter]

http://www.camelspiders.net/close-spider-bite.jpg

Bite from a camel spider.. yikes..

[luvmeye22re]

I had some bigass spiders down at my last house in Lakewood, not quite as big as some of those but legs spread out to about 2.5 inches. Now my new house in Dumont has a nice little collection of Black Widows, and some big ones almost 2.5 inches in diameter with their legs spread out, not my favorite bug to mess with, I've bugbombed the house 4 times since I got my first female black widow crawling up my arm.

[creepycrawler]

I freakin' hate spidies. I like snakes though & would rather have snakes cruising through the house than spidies. Poor lil ol' snakes get a bad rep. just because they ain't got legs. Spidies have too many legs. Snakes aren't rude like spidies. They will take every chance they get to go around you while a spidie will just walk right over you....


Stupid spidie.

[Rk Crlr]

Here some info that might make you feel better
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/index.html

[Jason]

Camel spiders???? Wolf spiders yes and this funky looking thing.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/Stemshot/IMG_3516.jpggarden orb weaver. love those spiders. there are ALOT of different versions. Its the spider that Charlots Web was modeled after

[Jason861]

:rant: I should have known better.....

now I have the eebie jeebie feeling like theres one on me :flipoff2:

dear 8lb 11oz baby jesus....please keep the man eating camel spiders away from me...I is skeered of dem

[Batgirl]

Good Lord. This thread is freaking me out, and I generally LIKE spiders!

Coincidentally, I saw a client on Friday who had woken up with a huge welt on her stomach which was getting bigger as the day went on. She decided to squeeze into her Doctor's office, who told her she'd been bitten by a spider- he even showed her the dots that were fang marks. :eek:

[jdbwrx]

According to national geographic, Camel Spiders aren't actually spiders.

"In fact, the creatures in the photo aren't spiders at all. They're actually solpugids, or solifugids (aka camel spiders, aka wind scorpions). Along with spiders, they are members of the class Arachnida.

The eight-legged solifugids have no venom glands, and the largest species is no more than 15 centimeters (6 inches) long with its legs outstretched. "

Here's the artcile.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0629_040629_camelspider.html

[rch]

I get shivers just looking at the pictures...

[Steve]

this thread needs more pics.

No, it definitely doesn't. :thumbsdown: Pics of spiders = bad. Real spiders = REAL bad.

[Bauer]

I found a Black Widow behind my BBQ the other day... She is no longer with us... Poor thing, she didn't have a chance when my boot got involved. :D

[rubbersidedown]

http://budak.blogs.com/the_annotated_budak/images/spider7_2

http://www.ojibway.ca/orbweaver.jpg


http://www.news.utoronto.ca/img/2006/female_spider_eating_male.jpg

[jdbwrx]

How about a big female wolf spider with lots of babies on board.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/jdbwrx/47585688_IMG_9795.jpg

[Matt]

http://www.colorado4x4.org/vbb/showpost.php?p=609880&postcount=13


I'm not kind to spiders anymore!

[edit] I'll try to fix the links.

[Sound_Man]

No, it definitely doesn't. :thumbsdown: Pics of spiders = bad. Real spiders = REAL bad.

Okay fair enough how about really big arse crabs that could eat you in one sitting?

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9961/coconutcrab2zt4.jpg

[Swat]

Sing along: "I don't like spiders and snakes and that ain't what it takes to love me. Like I wanna be loved by you..............................................

[potter]

Okay fair enough how about really big arse crabs that could eat you in one sitting?

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9961/coconutcrab2zt4.jpg

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

[Budman]

Okay fair enough how about really big arse crabs that could eat you in one sitting?

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9961/coconutcrab2zt4.jpg

How bout a big ole pot of boiling water for that big boy...

[Oscar]

http://www.marineprotectedarea.com.vu/_images/crab2.jpg

[CherryokeeXJ]

Okay fair enough how about really big arse crabs that could eat you in one sitting?

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9961/coconutcrab2zt4.jpg

They need to take their trash out. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[cheftyler]

That crab (or whatever the hell it is) would taste horrible...they're like lobsters, the small ones are sweeter (generally) and the bigger ones taste horrible because they are giant garbage disposals.

[4runninfun]

Okay fair enough how about really big arse crabs that could eat you in one sitting?

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9961/coconutcrab2zt4.jpg

WTF is that?!? "hunny get my gun...no the big one...50 cal will be fine!"

[gumcrew2]

Hey does anyone know what kind of spider this is?

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q309/gumcrew2/S4010061.jpg

Saw this today at Cherry Creek State Park, then I squished it.


-Saul

[Oscar]

looks like a tarantula

[oleblue]

That's what I was thinking too.

[gumcrew2]

We have tarantula's in colorado? Are they poisonus? Can I keep it? lol

-Saul

[Oscar]

actually it would have made a good pet dont think they are poisonus

[oleblue]

Yes Colorado has them, no they are not poisonus, unless they are one that hitched a ride on some RV from say, Arizona.

[creepycrawler]

Hey does anyone know what kind of spider this is?

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q309/gumcrew2/S4010061.jpg

Saw this today at Cherry Creek State Park, then I squished it.


-Saul

We have tarantula's in colorado? Are they poisonus? Can I keep it? lol

-Saul



Why would you want to keep a squarshed spidie?

[gumcrew2]

I'm guessing though that if a type of tarantula is in AZ it could very easily make it to CO. But next time I see one I want to capture it and either have it as a pet or give it to my cat, lol.

-Saul

[ni0h]

The funny thing about solifuges is, true to their name, they run from the sun, so a person in the desert, with the shade he provides, can find himself running from a wind scorpion that's chasing his shadow.

[Steve]

Okay fair enough how about really big arse crabs that could eat you in one sitting?

Crabs are OK. I've seen lots of huge ones diving in the Carribean. I haven't seen one quite that big tho.

[DaJudge]

Yes Colorado has them, no they are not poisonus, unless they are one that hitched a ride on some RV from say, Arizona.
This big guy sat for a portrait last Fall at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/astine/TucsonSheratonAZTrip050.jpg

[Swat]

Tarantula Hawk to the rescue, too many spiders in this thread. The Tarantula Hawk stings the spider, placing it in a state of suspended animation, drags it into it's hole, and lays its eggs on it. That is one big scary wasp!

http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/565701/fullsize/tarantula_hawk.jpg

http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/565702/fullsize/tarantulahawk.jpg

[HaySeed77]

I saw this happen in real life. I was sitting on the back patio in Wheat ridge and a big wolf spider came walking out on the concrete probably 3 inches across. A big blue colored hornet came down on top of him, stung him under his belly and paralized him then dragged him back down a crack next to the foundation. I wished I would have had the camcorder for that one!

[springsman]

Futher Mucker Bat man this is a fawking scarrrry thread.....

[Budman]

Futher Mucker Bat man this is a fawking scarrrry thread.....

Welcome back rob...