TracerBullet42
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Real or not...I'm horrified!
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Real life spider for D20 campaign
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Eye Tyrant
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TracerBullet42 said:
yeah, that's a pretty nasty bug...
When I was in Desert Storm we saw camel spiders, and usually at night. The biggest one was about the size of a baseball cap around (That I ever saw).
Facts I witnessed; It can jump a long ways...from the ground to about shoulder height, it is spiteful and will chase you , almost like a water moccasin would, and I saw a camel with a chewed hole the size of my fist in it's rear flank.
What I heard; that it is not a true spider, some type of scoprpion family thing, (when you stick a scorpion and a same size camel spider in a water bottle and shake it up to make them fight...the scorpion usually wins) and that it does have a mildly anesthetic bite that allows it to feed on camels for days before the notice.
Oh, and I did see a friend who had about an inch cut out of his arm because of some flesh rotting infection....they SAID it was started by a camel spider bite.
So, regardless of the fact you don't know me...I have SEEN those big spiders...now how much else is absolutely true? Don't know. The Saudi camel guys might have been pulling my leg, might not.
Facts I witnessed; It can jump a long ways...from the ground to about shoulder height, it is spiteful and will chase you , almost like a water moccasin would, and I saw a camel with a chewed hole the size of my fist in it's rear flank.
What I heard; that it is not a true spider, some type of scoprpion family thing, (when you stick a scorpion and a same size camel spider in a water bottle and shake it up to make them fight...the scorpion usually wins) and that it does have a mildly anesthetic bite that allows it to feed on camels for days before the notice.
Oh, and I did see a friend who had about an inch cut out of his arm because of some flesh rotting infection....they SAID it was started by a camel spider bite.
So, regardless of the fact you don't know me...I have SEEN those big spiders...now how much else is absolutely true? Don't know. The Saudi camel guys might have been pulling my leg, might not.
Djeta Thernadier
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Aren't spiders only supposed to have 8 legs?
heh. Like most things that people think are creepy crawly, I think it's kinda cute. Bet it would keep the ant population in my apartment down.
heh. Like most things that people think are creepy crawly, I think it's kinda cute. Bet it would keep the ant population in my apartment down.
Djeta Thernadier
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Taelorn76 said:As well as any pets you might have.
Ah, you've obviously not met my dog
Krieg
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No one has mentioned this yet so I'll go ahead & point it out. Looking at the pic, it's pretty apparent that it is actually of TWO camel spiders. The second one appears to be hanging off of the first one. Mating perhaps?
(Warning: Another "When I was over there..." story.)
We were co-located with some MPs who kept a Camel Spider in a cookie tin as a sort of pseudo-pet/mascot. Some other enterprising Marines stumbled across a scorpion about the size of a man's hand that looked like a black mutant lobster (it was very well armored).
Of course the only thing to do was to stick them in the tin together. The camel spider kept backing away while the scorpion doggedly stalked it. Finally the scorpion grabbed the camel spider w/both pinchers & thumped it in the middle of the head with it's stinger. The camel spider was out of the fight...
So the camel spiders don't win all of the battles...
....Of course there was the time in a Division Staff meeting that a boot 2nd Lt noticed something under his chair, reached down & came up with a Horned Viper in his grasp. He couldn't figure out why everyone was falling over themselves trying to get the heck away from him (He didn't realize it was poisonous)!
Doppleganger said:
(Warning: Another "When I was over there..." story.)
We were co-located with some MPs who kept a Camel Spider in a cookie tin as a sort of pseudo-pet/mascot. Some other enterprising Marines stumbled across a scorpion about the size of a man's hand that looked like a black mutant lobster (it was very well armored).
Of course the only thing to do was to stick them in the tin together. The camel spider kept backing away while the scorpion doggedly stalked it. Finally the scorpion grabbed the camel spider w/both pinchers & thumped it in the middle of the head with it's stinger. The camel spider was out of the fight...
So the camel spiders don't win all of the battles...
....Of course there was the time in a Division Staff meeting that a boot 2nd Lt noticed something under his chair, reached down & came up with a Horned Viper in his grasp. He couldn't figure out why everyone was falling over themselves trying to get the heck away from him (He didn't realize it was poisonous)!
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SkidAce said:
It all depends on who you believe, I guess... From the link posted by Piratecat, above:
Camel spiders (so named because, like camels, they can be found in sandy desert regions) grow to be moderately large (about a 5" leg span), but nowhere near as large as dinner plates; they can move very quickly in comparison to other arthropods (a top speed of maybe 10 MPH), but nothing close 25 MPH; they make no noise; and they capture prey without the use of either venom or anesthetic.
I first heard this story so long ago that I can't even recall if it was before the first gulf war. Anyway, every source I've been able to find, since, says Camel "Spiders" have no venom. Seems to me that that would be a pretty simple thing to determine, for a biologist...
