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12-12-2007, 03:46 PM
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Country:  | Camel spiders are class Arachnida, order Solifugae- related to true spiders, but much, much cooler. I've seen lots of videos from bored servicemen in Iraq. These things are absolutely vicious and there are lots and lots of rumors about them that are completely untrue.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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12-13-2007, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Aggie08  Camel spiders are class Arachnida, order Solifugae- related to true spiders, but much, much cooler. | No the are not. Solifugae are not true spiders, which are from a different order, Araneae. Like scorpions and harvestmen, they belong to a distinct arachnid order.
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Originally Posted by Aggie08 I've seen lots of videos from bored servicemen in Iraq. These things are absolutely vicious and there are lots and lots of rumors about them that are completely untrue. | No they are not aggresive at all. I lived with them in Iraq for 14 months and was never attacked by them once. We would catch them and keep them as pets. If they run after you they are just trying to get in your shadow to keep cool.
No one was ever bitten by one in the 14 months or attacked by them.
The rumors of them being aggresive are all tall tales of soldiers trying to scare people, scare new soldiers or just act tough.
Also no camel spiders have venom (except for a possible species that lives in India) nor do they have an anaesthetic.
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12-13-2007, 02:39 PM
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#93 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | 100% accurate Chris.... Ive also had Camel Spiders as a pet in the desert on several occasions.... They served a useful "down time" filler, dueling them with other desert inhabitants....
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12-13-2007, 04:07 PM
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Country: | Related as in they are arachnids, from the order Arachnida. Not everything in Arachnida are true spiders.
I meant in the videos I had seen, where they are forced to fight scorpions or other critters. The opponent doesn't even have a chance. They have no interest in bothering people.
There were rumors going around soldiers that they had an anaesthetic and ate you while you slept and other ridiculous things which are of course not true.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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12-14-2007, 11:05 AM
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#95 | | Der Crewchief
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Originally Posted by Aggie08
I meant in the videos I had seen, where they are forced to fight scorpions or other critters. The opponent doesn't even have a chance. They have no interest in bothering people.
| We would put them in tanks with Scorpions and the Camel Spiders never won. The Scorpions allways came out on top.
The only thing the Camel Spiders were able to defeat were crickets, that we fed them....
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12-14-2007, 12:09 PM
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__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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12-14-2007, 06:49 PM
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#97 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | I have seen a Camel Spider beat a Black Scorpion, but we took out his stinger so.....
Who said Mother Nature was fair???
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12-15-2007, 01:09 AM
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__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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12-15-2007, 06:00 AM
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Country: | Most the scorpions we put in there were about 2 inches long with the tail curved. The Camel Spiders were about 3 to 4 inches across.
Scorpions allways won.
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12-16-2007, 01:22 AM
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__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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01-03-2008, 10:34 AM
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very healthy plants.
Is that a Knife eel in the same tank?
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