Arachnophobia...

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...Check out these Camel Spiders from Iraq, and I thought dealing with Black Widows waws bad...



Compare that with a Black Widow


I hate Black widows and now I feel like hey are crawling all over me!

yyyyaaahhhhhh. . . . . . . . . if the little ones creep me out so bad, giving me shivers now, those would totally make me lose it. What are they hanging on, or WHO are they hanging on? Do they eat camels? oooohhhh
creeeeeepppyy

Don't worry, they don't eat humans.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

THAT IS REALLY, REALLY FREAKY!

They are amazing!!

No they are not!

I've seen those pictures before.

I don't mind spiders. I don't like really big ones, or biggish ones. (The black widdow you posted I would class as biggish) but I love tiny ones, and like money spiders, and don't mind daddy long legs.

And for some reason those ugly suction things on one of those big spiders really annoy me. If I had those I would pull them off.

very freaky!

I don't like snakes.

(And Nazis, I hate those guys...)

They do not belong to the spider family. They are solifugae. But they do belong to the arachnida class, like spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites (and many more).
They are not venomous.

I think I'd like to have one as a pet actually.

Those spiders are freaky. One more reason why I will not go to the Middle East.

Whats so freaky about the spider?

They are big spiders! THAT IS WHAT IS FREAKY! I AM ARACHNOPHOBIC!

DO NOT POST SPIDER PICTURES AGAIN.

I agree.

Actually, I had a conversation about these little lovelies last week. And a friend informed me about their existence first of all, and then told me they are not actually Spiders at all (though they are in the arachnid family as are scorpions).

They are called Camel Spiders because they feed off of camels (not killing them of course, just simply like parasites or how the Vampire Bat feeds off cattle often).

I have little fear of spiders unless a Brown Recluse is in my apartment and then I must chase after it and kill it because my cats will want to use it as a cat toy (and I also just do not want to live with a Brown Recluse). But even so, I wouldn't want to have the opportunity to meet up close any Camel Spiders either. NO THANK YEW.