Posted on 05/20/2016 4:43:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A group of campers encountered and trapped a large camel spider at a campground in central Israel.
Facebook user Nate Simantov shared a video of the camel spider which was trapped in a plastic container with a rock to weigh it down.
"That time we caught a camel spider while camping," Simantov wrote.
According to National Geographic, although camel spiders are classified as arachnids, they are actually solpugids and not spiders.
While one camper remarked that the large arachnid was "gross," they do not possess any venom and are mostly harmless to humans.
Video at site.
Call UPI I caught a lightning bug in a mason jar
Scratch Israel for my next camping experience. I’ll stick to my hotel and a day trip to Masada!
While we were camping near Oolagah, Oklahoma, a huge centipede came crawling through the camp. I sprayed it with Raid and killed it.
I measured it and it was just about exactly a foot long. I later looked it up and that is about as large as they ever get.
Just let him go, morons.
We once had 200 stink bugs fly into our camper......no kidding!
Shenandoah Valley
They don’t really stink, but they’re big and they fly.
DANGER FACE CRAB!
Despite their ferocious appearance, they are actually lower on the pecking order than common house spiders; and I have seen spiders dining on them on a couple of occasions.
I thought that read "later I cooked that up" and went WOW! this guy knows how to camp.
We had some of those crawl out of the organ during Mass in San Antonio. They’d probably lived there since the organ was moved to Texas in the 1930s. Father Henke, the cowboy priest, stomped one with his cowboy boots, and some intrepid gents hustled the others out the back door.
That’s a very handsome arachnid. My children all want one, but we are not in their appropriate climate.
Same thing in Arizona.
Not a spider...
But it can grow to 6” long
deliver a painful bite
run at a speed of 10mph
and it’s an arachnid.
No, not a spider. More like a superspider.
What's this mostly mean, kimosabe?
Can you grill it?
How do they taste?
G-d's way of making sure you pray.
In China, they would have put that sucker on a spit and roasted him like a marshmallow!
LOL!
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