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| STORIES CONTINUED Aug 22, 2005 Aug 19th, 2005 I thought I would add a little story for the site if accepted. Back in 1990 we came across a strange looking creature one night. We took it inside, put in a coffee can and commenced on feeding it. It went through 4 black widow spiders, a cricket and a wolf spider (along with its babies) and was still hungry. It took some research to discover what in the world what this strange thing was, (seeing how there was not a wonderful internet to use), but low and behold we came up with the identity. A "Wind Scorpion" or nicknamed camel spider. This wasnt in the middle east somewhere either. It was in good old southern California at night on the flight line on Marine Corps Air Station Tustin. They can be seen all across the desert here in the states, though they dont reach much larger that a few inches at the biggest. I have had one of Marines find one just nonchelantly crawling up her coveralls and not giving a hoot to the hand swatting away. Here or the middle east, they are an aggressive creature and not one to let get a bit into you. Thought I would share, John D. Aug 17th,2005 During desert shield I was assigned to the 2nd COSCOM in Saudi Arabia after we had captured a few and like any bored soldier we pitted our spider versus pet spiders from other units. (Cruel but interesting) Our Spider was small and rather hungry; he remained undefeated for about three weeks until our bloated bug was eaten by a smaller and faster spider. SPC. T. Bourland Aug 8, 2005 Hi Spiderman!, I just wanted to drop you a line. I live in California. We bought a new house and for the past year and a half have been in full battle over a Camel Spider invasion. I contacted a local pest control company and they did not believe me. They do now, after several visits trying to kill these things we both agreed that we part our separate ways. I turned to Noble Way pest control and spoke to the owner. He was pretty confident that he could take care of it. You see, the layer of pesticide they lay down only sickens the vermin for about a day then they are up and running again. We have seen ones 3 inches long and down to only a half a centimeter (baby). It has been over a year and again they have bombed our home twice, multiple visits and such. Anyway, I am not seeing them as much (was 3 a day down to 1 a week). I have witnessed them attack prey outside and then sit and eat them. I put several in a jar and watch them attack each other. They area smart and can follow you as you move. In a jar they will Lunge at your fingers. They are vicious. I have had several friends come over just to see them. The funny thing is that no other house is affected and the pest control persons have never seen them. I have sent live specimens in jars with Noble way and the other pest guys for testing. In a nutshell I am actually proud to say I have them. I have grown accustom to lifting my feet as one runs by. My kids do the same. The biggest one we have ever seen was 3 inches long and we believe was a female ready to deliver. We watched in awe as she disappeared under a base board. I think that was our undoing. Here is a current picture of what we call a ‘Small’ one. It has been dead for a couple weeks so it has dried and shrunk. It is a wimpy example. Anyway, if you have any questions let me know The Hodgsons July 31, 2005 I just found this site this morning while looking for a picture someone said they saw of a 4-5ft camel spider a soldier was holding up. I'm pretty sure it's the picture with the 2 normal sized spiders someone is holding up. Anyway, here's a story. I'm currently in Iraq and sometimes while on guard duty I see these things.
While 3 of us were doubled over laughing all she could say was, "It
looked -Sgt Schwarz Mark, July 5, 2005 Yes, I had my first encounter with the infamous (meaning "more than famous"), Camel Spider. I had taken trash to the big dumpster and while throwing everything in I got oil on my hands, but I saw a clean one in the dumpster and reached in and grabbed it. As I stood up I saw something out of the corner of my eye, and let me tell you, it was fast. I jumped back and it raced right under me on the rim of the dumpster, about chest high. When I moved back it jumped (it did not fall!), it jumped towards me, off the dumpster. Luckily, it missed me or I'd have been run out of the army for screaming like a little girl. It ran under the hummvee and I found myself saying to myself "self, 120 is not really that hot, a nice walk (or run) back to the motorpool sounds pretty good". But I decided to try to get a picture of it for everyone and I moved the hummvee forward and tried to find it on the ground, but it had vanished (because thats what spiders do, they know they can scare you more if they pull the "now you see me, now you don't" trick). Now, who says I don't love you guys. I was prepared to face a huge, mutant spider, with nothing between us but a camera, for YOU!! Insurgents are one thing, just as long as the president promises never to send us into caves to destroy the camel spider population. I don't think I'd ever recover from that. I hope you all enjoyed my story, just a little entertainmen at my expense, I can deal with that. So next time you see a spider in your house, don't freak out, I promise you it won't be the size of a rat and look like the thing from Alien that attatches itself to your face (and that's the best I can honestly describe it). Ok I dont know if my story is so intersting but here goes. My husband and I live in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel. Our garden is right off of our kitchen so we are used to getting our share of strange creatures come in the house or in the garden; various beetles, very large cockroaches, lizzards and very small terantula looking spiders. But I never in my life saw one of these, until last Friday night. My huband and I were eating dinner and out of the corner of his eye my husband saw something and looked at the floor. We both saw what I now think is a Camel Spider. About the size of the palm of a mans hand in length. I coulnt get such a good look at its legs, because he was so fast, but what I remember is the pincer on the mouth, it was dark brown and hairy, with a large fat body. Anyway we thought at first it was a millepede, but upon sweeping it out (not back to the garden) it definitely was not that! I thought a scorpion but it had not a scorpion tail. Anyway we were pretty frightened (still get goosebumps) by this mysterious creature, until thank you for clearing up the mystery! I just hope we dont have any return visits :) Bina, Israel While working for Al Salam Aircraft company in Riyadh, 2002- 2003 (I left after the Jadawel Compound bombing) we had many run ins with camel spiders in the hanger areas and out in the aircraft run areas. I admit that my first encounter with one scared the hell out of me but it got to be routine. Some were relatively small, others fairly large, all were aggressive like nothing I have ever seen. They would come in, mostly on night shift, walking right up the middle of the hanger. We couldn't take a broom, or anything else, and try to push them out as they would turn aggressive and attack whatever we would use so we finally started keeping coffee cans, and other containers, around and just trapped them and took them out to the fence line and let them go. Of course some did not want to be trapped and we would then introduce them to the "Smash factor" but what a mess that made. Luckily we had no one bitten, American or Saudi, but there were the usual close calls since we had to start checking everything we opened, carefully, for any intruders. I hope I never run into one of those nasty little buggers again. They must be what B sci-fi movie producers had in mind when they were making all those movies in the 50's. This next story comes to us from a former British soldier. Dear Sir, editor: Thank you for that great story! Find the largest collection of camel spider pictures on the internet at camelspiders.net The enigmatic, huge, screaming camel spider ...read the stories below. Go now to the see the camel spider picture everyone is talking about.
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Soldiers in Iraq have lots of hair raising stories about these erie creatures. ATTENTION SOLDIERS! Did you have an experience with camel spiders you would like to share? Please e-mail us at hair-raising-camel-spider-story@camelspiders.net and tell us all about it. Include your name only if you like. If you would like to include pictures, feel free to do so. Thanks to all the troops, their dedication and sacrifice. Stories Continued:Author: Stephan Parrish Author: Unknown Author: Scientist in the Middle East Note: We are not affiliated
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