camel spiders are a gift from satan.

[Imperator Severn]

Imagine stepping on one of these! They invade our house every year. Got stung by one last year... It is best Described as stepping on a BIG hot peice of glass.

Yeah, we have the same kind around here. Those motherfuckers hurt, and it doesn't help that they love to snuggle up in clean laundry.

[spoon]

[quote="Zero_Point";p="318836"]Heh, you should go visit Tennessee. They don't call 'em "Grand-daddy Long-legs" for no reason.[/quote]

Pft. They aren't that bad. The biggest one I saw in nine years living there was only about five inches from end to end. They stink like hell when you squish them, however.

[Zero_Point]

You mean the ones with a body about 1/3 inches across?

Oh, and there's also those things they call "Golly-woppers". They look like a mosquito... Except they 4 inches long...

[Rorschach]

I am now typing whilst standing on my chair, I'm so afraid to put my feet back on the floor
rawkeye's original pic wasn't working so I thought I'd come in and see what all the posts were for and I saw...
I'm with Dreamer: once a spider has fricken' meat on it's fricken bones then it's too fricken' big
Now if you'll excuse me
/me flees

[spoon]

I especially like the hornets in Tennessee. They're bigger than your thumb.

[Dreamer]

The roaches in Florida were always a trip.
They frickin' fly.
I mean, WTF?
WTH is up with these creatures, man?
God can be one effed up mother effer.
"I have a new game. Just for fun, let's try to come up with the scariest, fugliest, goddamn wicked creatures you can imagine.
"No no, don't worry about how many legs you want it to have
"Nope fangs can go on anything in this game, anything at all! Just have fun!
"No, of course I won't actually put them on EARTH. That would be sick!"
one week later
"Uh, God, have you seen that list of freaky things we made up? Iw ant to show it to Murry on third shift."
"Oh sure, I put it in the 'out' pile."
"Um, you mean THIS pile?"
"oops..."

[Zero_Point]

I think I found one...


Of course, it's the small ones when under miscroscope that are the fugliest, hands-down.



http://www.nau.edu/~electron/UB99_img.htm

[Zaph]

Imagine stepping on one of these! They invade our house every year. Got stung by one last year... It is best Described as stepping on a BIG hot peice of glass.

My parents live out in Colleyville, TX and from spring to fall we have to keep scooping them up and throwing them back out. They are the hardest fuckers to kill, but if you scare them enough they will sting themselves to death. Thats kind of fun to watch when your mom is up on the couch saying" KILL IT, KILL IT".

-Zaph

[Kits]

THESE are what we get in Alabama...my friends had one in their backyard that we liked to call "The Squirrel"

icky spider freakiness

[Catamaul]

If you prepare them correctly, most spiders taste nice, and can add an interesting flavor to almost any dis......

Can't even joke... Skin crawling... this thread makes me feel like I have an itch.

[sneaky ninja]

Now I keep thinking I have spiders crawling all over me. EEEK! Make it stop! >.<

[flamechocobo]

Once I got bitten by a spider up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains... The bite swelled up to be about 6 inches across...

[Rorschach]

It's when they lay their eggs just under your skin you have to worry, and the spider babies hatch and eat their way out...[/urbanmyth]

[Calus]

[quote="Jamie Bond";p="318800"]actually i heard that they are not real spiders... because they have an exoskeleton or something

But then again there are a LOT of unreliable sources on camel spiders... so i could be very wrong[/quote]

Arachnids like all other Invertebrates have an exoskeleton. Vertebrates have endoskeletons.

Exoskeleton means, a hard outer structure, such as the shell of an insect or crustacean, that provides protection or support for an organism.
Endoskeleton means, an internal supporting skeleton, derived from the mesoderm, that is characteristic of vertebrates and certain invertebrates.

[Romulus]

*goes to change his pants*