Latest From Iraq

[panzer]

They run 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out at night unless they are in shade. When they bite you, you are injected with Novocain so you go numb instantly. You don't even know you are bitten when you are sleeping, so you wake up with part of your leg or arm missing because it has been gnawing on it all night long. If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting a shadow over it, and the sun makes contact with it, you better run. It will instantly run for your shadow, and scream the whole time it is chasing you.

PS. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top. These are Spiders found daily in IRAQ by troops. Imagine waking up and seeing one of these in your tent!!

http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=705&img=BIGASSSPIDERS.jpg

http://www.arabianwildlife.com/nature/insect/ins09.html
http://home.global.co.za/~quagga/solpugid.htm

Now that one hell of a nasty looking critter!...Mrosko

[ShermiesRule]

Holy crap! Is that for real or a clip from an ALIEN movie?

[animal]

Man I hate spiders of any size and these give me a case of the creeps..

[Alky]

I'm with you Animal!! And I thought there were big spiders on this side of the pond. And they even scream? I wonder how our troops even manage to sleep at night. :(

[Jens O. Mehner]

Well,

this is just a load of baloney, and just look at the size of the sleeve in raltion to the two camel spiders. Everything rumored about them is just another urban legend, see http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

As one who has encountered many of them back during ODS, I can attest that they're harmless and usually run away- now those big black ants are another story, they had biiiig pincers that cut other insects cleanly in half.

Just my 2 Eurocents

Jens O.

[Jens O. Mehner]

"in relation to those two camel spiders"- sheeesh, Ole Fumblefinger at work again...

[ShermiesRule]

Even that rumor page says Camel spiders can get 5 inches. That's still gosh darn big