Eight-legged lodgers on the move
 

Just to scare the whatits out of you all. ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4218436.stm

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thank you very much hopefully they will eat them blummin crane flies :)

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Right, time to make sure all my windows and doors dont have any gaps in them. I cant stand spiders.
They move so fast and just look awful.

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I prefer spiders to flies.Now the latter are really disgusting. :(

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Has any one else noticed that they seem to have got bigger in the last couple of years? (spiders that is not flies)

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This spider will make even the hardest man blub like a baby!

With a vertical leap that would make a pro basketball player weep with envy (they have to be able to jump up on to a camels stomach after all), they latch on and inject you with a local anesthesia so you can't feel it feeding on you. They eat flesh, not just suck out your juices like a normal spider. I'm gona be having night mares after seeing this photo!

• Camel spiders can grow to be as large as dinner plates.
  
• Camel spiders can traverse desert sand at speeds up to 25 MPH, making screaming noises as they run.
  
• Camel spiders can jump several feet in the air.
  
• Camel spiders eat the stomachs of camels and lay their eggs there, hence the name "camel spider." (Legend includes the detail that camel spiders eat camel stomachs from either the outside in or the inside out. In the former case they supposedly jump up from the ground and grab onto camels' bellies from underneath; in the latter case exactly how spiders allegedly as large as dinner plates get into camels' stomachs intact remains unexplained.)
  
• Camel spiders are venomous, and their venom contains a powerful anesthetic that numbs their victims (thus allowing them to gnaw away at living, immobilized animals without being noticed). U.S. soldiers were said to have been attacked by camel spiders at night but remained completely unaware of their plight until they awakened in the morning to find chunks of their flesh missing.

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Dave I can really go off people you know...thanks for sharing....NOT! lol

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I should point out that there are two in the picture. one is trying to eat another

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and here is me worrying about crane flies :rolleyes:

THE SIZE OF CAMEL SPIDERS :Yikes:
thank you :td:

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Re: Camel Spiders
I'd just like to point out these 2 url's
http://www.camelspiders.net/
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

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6 friekin inches 10mph i still dont feel better :(

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Point as much as you want cause I am not looking :disturbd: lol

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sorry but the top one is the one we have here :Yikes:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2005/09/21.jpg

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Nooooooo take it away!!!!!!! https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2005/09/20.gif

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LOL

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I don't mind sharing with a few spiders its when they start rushing accross the floor right at me that freaks me out.

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I have had to kill a few spiders lately, as thtey are as big as coffee cups, and the last one I killed looked like the one from the BBC page, I don't care what they are called they are spiders and I am bloody scared of them, so they must die.

sorry I cannot pick them up and throw them away, or move them on, they must perish so I can rest easy and get to sleep at night.

ik

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My dad tells me they keep the house clean! I have yet to see a spider doing any polishing!!

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give them the can of Mr Sheen then

ik

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I like spiders - this time of year some species set up the 'last chance saloon' with amazing webs, outside , hoping to get enough food to last through the winter - usually, inside our house is too dry for most spiders ...

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I like them too..Nice friendly things that EAT those disgusting flies that walk in sh*t and spit on my food. ;)

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LOL .. I'm with you Incog.

Don't fancy those big camel things though !! :Yikes:

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You'll be alright - you're not a camel :D

Unless you get the hump from reading this :erm: ;)

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Groan !! :disturbd:

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only to be expected from the punmeister

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Pretty sure I've seen a couple of these around the house, about 2 inches from one end of the leg to the end of the opposing leg, and can really dart about!!

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I hate you all, you all i tell you!

Im going to spend the next 24hours runnign scared coz of large spiders :Yikes: