camel spider

Creating it's web....

trying to stay warm he sits and waits for his prey

to swap down and meet his food face to face

after years of eating this spider became huge.....

BIG ENOUGH TO EAT CATS & DOGS & KILL COWS & HORSES .... by Buck Stix

Camel Spiders tend to seek out shade during the daytime, so it's not terribly unusual to have a Camel Spider come charging across the desert at you. .... They are BIG and FAST. ( they can run up to 10 MPH ) Camel Spiders are also cannibalistic. Looks like the bottom Spider is eating the top Spider.
A Camel Spider can live for 10-15 years. Camel Spiders periodically shed their skin, increasing their size every time they do. Seems that more and more Camel Spiders are living longer, and longer. This means they are shedding more and more times, growing larger and larger. If this trend continues, someday a Camel Spider may reach over 3 feet in length.

OMFG!!!
Ouch!

Don't get bit

Look at this one...

Monday, July 31, 2006
Insurgents, Sectarian Violence and....Camel Spiders?
My friend and neighbor Tyler Williamson (introductory posts here and here) has been serving in Iraq for about a year. During that time he has been shelled and shot at, sunburned and sand-blinded, overworked, underpaid and much too far from home. But he's the kind of guy who can handle this sort of thing.
For my benefit (and his, I'm sure) Tyler has been sending occasional pictures of the Iraqi wildlife he encounters, from magpie-like Pied Crows, to bronzed river carp to a long-legged kind of native fox. Today he sent this, which evidently caused quite a stir at headquarters.
The troops call them "camel spiders" and give them due respect. They are in fact spider-relatives, solpugids (the Solifugae), a gruesome lot combining all the "best" features of spiders, scorpions and bedtime closet monsters.


















........the first spider is actually not a camel spider but I thought my picture was cool so I put it in there.

Thanks to the Omaha Art Muesuem for that one.