News from Iraq! The Camel Spider!--CAUTION: IMAGES

SUBMAN1 · 06-17-08, 03:39 PM

Holy crud! Can you believe this thing?

http://www.camelspiders.net/

MothBalls · 06-17-08, 03:42 PM

Baked, boiled, or fried?

Platapus · 06-17-08, 04:03 PM

Crikey! Put a saddle on that monster and you can ride it.

I wonder if that would be the biggest spider in the world but I am really afraid to ask

Steel_Tomb · 06-17-08, 04:07 PM

Yeah my dad came across a few of those during his tours over there, they're bloody nasty things. Give a nasty bite too. Aparantly my dad said that when they only had very basic toilet facilities i.e. a tube into the ground for peeing into critters would hide in there away from the heat so you had to be careful not to get your family jewels nipped by some local wildlife

Platapus · 06-17-08, 04:12 PM

thats the last thing one of our military men needs to be worried about. Having some great big spider nipping at your old man.

Ducimus · 06-17-08, 04:41 PM

I had something like this:
http://www.camelspiders.net/camel-spider-bite.htm

happen on the back of my left leg, just above the knee. Only it wasn't a camel spider. Never was sure what exactly bite me. Doc's thought maybe a brown recluse. But they did to me exactly what was described in that link.. EXACTLY. My leg was so badly infected that local anesthisa didnt work. They milked puss out of my leg for 20 minutes (no joke, by the time i was able to get medical attention my leg was so far gone i couldn't bend it anymore). They Also cut out the "necrotic tissue". It Hurt like hell (i was given a wad of gause to bite down on) when the doc cut it out. It was like he took a core sample out of my leg and set it on the tray next to me. I could see the skin, the lay of fat under it, the meat under that ,etc. Sure did make a nice scar.

Officerpuppy · 06-17-08, 04:51 PM

Thats one nasty looking bugger there

How big do those get? It looks pretty darn big in that picture, is that a common size?

STEED · 06-17-08, 05:00 PM

Shoot the bugger, ugly sod.

Red Heat · 06-17-08, 05:00 PM

Fkn ****...its so dam big!
I never so one of that size...

jumpy · 06-17-08, 05:03 PM

The image is somewhat misleading with the perspective.
The biggest Camel Spiders are about 5" leg span.

Oberon · 06-17-08, 05:34 PM

Sod the insurgents, MOAB those buggers!!

AVGWarhawk · 06-17-08, 05:53 PM

Ugly nasty looking thing.

Blacklight · 06-17-08, 06:05 PM

It looks like an alien facehugger !!!

If I ever saw one of those things, I'd scream like a little girl and run away !

SUBMAN1 · 06-17-08, 06:08 PM

Some have been recorded at greater than 6" by the way - as referenced on that site.

-S

mrbeast · 06-17-08, 07:06 PM

Now I would not like to encounter one of those during a nocturnal trip to the can!

Spiders (or at least spider like creatures) don't normally bother me, infact some are quite cute; but I think I could make an exeception for that beast.

On the subject of desert creepy crawlies, my great grandfather was stung by a scorpion in Mesopotamia (basically Iraq) during WWI. Forgot to shake his tunic before he put it on. It swelled up too, and had to be lanced, my grandmother said that half of the palm on one of his hands was a big flat scar from it. No mention of camel spiders though, but no doubt he encountered them too!

06-17-08, 03:39 PM	#1
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	News from Iraq! The Camel Spider!--CAUTION: IMAGES Holy crud! Can you believe this thing? http://www.camelspiders.net/ __________________

06-17-08, 04:03 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,365 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Crikey! Put a saddle on that monster and you can ride it. I wonder if that would be the biggest spider in the world but I am really afraid to ask __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

06-17-08, 04:07 PM	#4
Steel_Tomb Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire - UK Posts: 1,128 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yeah my dad came across a few of those during his tours over there, they're bloody nasty things. Give a nasty bite too. Aparantly my dad said that when they only had very basic toilet facilities i.e. a tube into the ground for peeing into critters would hide in there away from the heat so you had to be careful not to get your family jewels nipped by some local wildlife __________________ _______________________________________________ System Spec: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz \| 4Gb Corsair XMS2 Dominator DDR2 PC-2 6400 RAM \| XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640mb PCI-E \| Creative X-fi sound card \| 250Gb HDD \| *Rest In Peace Dave, you will be missed.*

06-17-08, 04:12 PM	#5
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,365 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	thats the last thing one of our military men needs to be worried about. Having some great big spider nipping at your old man. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

06-17-08, 05:00 PM	#8
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Shoot the bugger, ugly sod. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

06-17-08, 03:42 PM	#2
MothBalls Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,012 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Baked, boiled, or fried?

06-17-08, 04:41 PM	#6
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I had something like this: http://www.camelspiders.net/camel-spider-bite.htm happen on the back of my left leg, just above the knee. Only it wasn't a camel spider. Never was sure what exactly bite me. Doc's thought maybe a brown recluse. But they did to me exactly what was described in that link.. EXACTLY. My leg was so badly infected that local anesthisa didnt work. They milked puss out of my leg for 20 minutes (no joke, by the time i was able to get medical attention my leg was so far gone i couldn't bend it anymore). They Also cut out the "necrotic tissue". It Hurt like hell (i was given a wad of gause to bite down on) when the doc cut it out. It was like he took a core sample out of my leg and set it on the tray next to me. I could see the skin, the lay of fat under it, the meat under that ,etc. Sure did make a nice scar.

06-17-08, 04:51 PM	#7
Officerpuppy Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mansfield, TX Posts: 213 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Thats one nasty looking bugger there How big do those get? It looks pretty darn big in that picture, is that a common size?

06-17-08, 05:00 PM	#9
Red Heat Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Portugal Posts: 1,093 Downloads: 267 Uploads: 0	Fkn ****...its so dam big! I never so one of that size... __________________ "There is three kinds of man: the living, the death, and those who are at Sea." Plato

06-17-08, 05:03 PM	#10
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	The image is somewhat misleading with the perspective. The biggest Camel Spiders are about 5" leg span. __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

06-17-08, 05:34 PM	#11
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Sod the insurgents, MOAB those buggers!!

06-17-08, 05:53 PM	#12
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,256 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Ugly nasty looking thing. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

06-17-08, 06:05 PM	#13
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	It looks like an alien facehugger !!! If I ever saw one of those things, I'd scream like a little girl and run away ! __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

06-17-08, 06:08 PM	#14
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Some have been recorded at greater than 6" by the way - as referenced on that site. -S __________________

06-17-08, 07:06 PM	#15
mrbeast Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Bolton, UK Posts: 1,236 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Now I would not like to encounter one of those during a nocturnal trip to the can! Spiders (or at least spider like creatures) don't normally bother me, infact some are quite cute; but I think I could make an exeception for that beast. On the subject of desert creepy crawlies, my great grandfather was stung by a scorpion in Mesopotamia (basically Iraq) during WWI. Forgot to shake his tunic before he put it on. It swelled up too, and had to be lanced, my grandmother said that half of the palm on one of his hands was a big flat scar from it. No mention of camel spiders though, but no doubt he encountered them too! __________________