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.
Fortunately, most people don’t know these critters are venomous.
Don’t care. Still creepy.
Ask Andrew Zimmern
All your children? I didn't know that many children could agree on something.
Well, Bill isn’t home. After intensive grooming, he left the house with a guitar.
Of the 8 still underfoot this evening, there is total agreement on arachnid companions.
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.
That's probably the only way to kill one of those things. I found a big one crawling across the carpet once in New Mexico and I hit it multiple times with a hammer - a freaking hammer - and it just raced to the sideboard and disappeared. I couldn't believe it.
Next time I'm using a shotgun.
“I measured it and it was just about exactly a foot long.”
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If I saw something like that what was left of me would have to be picked up with a spoon.
Dreadful
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What we call a Vinegaroon, they are fearsome killers and eaters of all things on six and eight legs.
Wish I had a gazillion of them running around my farm.
OVERKILL; and remember you have to fix the floor.
Yep, and with my luck, probably arrest.
"What are ya in for?"
"Well see, there was this centipede... it was really big..."
Kill it with fire!
Well, it's kind of like this:
Is it true they taste like chicken?
Living in New Mexico when I was a kid, we used to put one of those little kid pools on our back patio during the summer. When we were done playing in it, we would dump the water into the yard, and almost every time a huge (probably 10-inch) centipede would come crawling out.
Those big centipedes are tough to kill. They could survive my 200lb+ dad stomping on them. No need for a shotgun, though. Putting them in the freezer for a while will do the job just fine.
There were also these hideous things the locals called “beanie babies” or “alien babies” but we’re actually Jerusalem crickets. Yeowza - them plus the centipedes...
And yet NM is so incredibly beautiful... if you survive it...
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