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bobbyzee
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i like spiders too, but i'd still run a fookin' mile from those b'stards!Incredigull
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Went well with Wardy !!
BRIGHT ON Q
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I'm suprised the yanks havn't given them the rocket launcher treatment.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I bet they're tiny really. They're just being dangled very close to the camera lens.
the full harris
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- Feb 14, 2004
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i was just watching a bit of 'eight legged freaks' on sky.
That is one crap but funny film!
That is one crap but funny film!
The Laughing Bluebird
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I'm afraid Lush has fallen for an urban legend here......
The creatures in the photograph are known as Camel Spiders. Generally, they grow no bigger than a small child's hand. Although the specimens in this photo appear to be mature adults, the shot makes them look an awful lot bigger than they actually are. These two are probably about the size of an adult's hand at best.
Although they look pretty nasty, Camel Spiders are not in the slightest bit venomous, and the suggestion that they inject human victims with novocaine is utter nonsense.
These nocturnal beasts feed upon crickets, locusts, small scorpions and other such creatures. They don't eat people at all! In fact, like 99% of spiders, they are not known to be in any way aggressive towards human beings unless provoked.
They are certainly fast movers, and can apparently reach speeds of around 10mph as they scuttle accross the desert. However, they cannot jump distances of 3ft! And they are not perculiar to Iraq either. They can be found in certain areas of the USA, Mexico, and numerous other places around the globe.
I've been keeping tarantulas for many years. I've got three at the moment. Big hairy ones. But they are as placid as can be. Far less aggressive than your average hamster, as long as you know how to look after them.
The biggest tarantula on record was actually bred by a guy in Edinburgh a few years ago. She is a female Goliath Bird-Eater, and her leg span was just over 18" when she was last measured. That's big. The Iraqi Camel Spiders are tiddlers by comparison!
The creatures in the photograph are known as Camel Spiders. Generally, they grow no bigger than a small child's hand. Although the specimens in this photo appear to be mature adults, the shot makes them look an awful lot bigger than they actually are. These two are probably about the size of an adult's hand at best.
Although they look pretty nasty, Camel Spiders are not in the slightest bit venomous, and the suggestion that they inject human victims with novocaine is utter nonsense.
These nocturnal beasts feed upon crickets, locusts, small scorpions and other such creatures. They don't eat people at all! In fact, like 99% of spiders, they are not known to be in any way aggressive towards human beings unless provoked.
They are certainly fast movers, and can apparently reach speeds of around 10mph as they scuttle accross the desert. However, they cannot jump distances of 3ft! And they are not perculiar to Iraq either. They can be found in certain areas of the USA, Mexico, and numerous other places around the globe.
I've been keeping tarantulas for many years. I've got three at the moment. Big hairy ones. But they are as placid as can be. Far less aggressive than your average hamster, as long as you know how to look after them.
The biggest tarantula on record was actually bred by a guy in Edinburgh a few years ago. She is a female Goliath Bird-Eater, and her leg span was just over 18" when she was last measured. That's big. The Iraqi Camel Spiders are tiddlers by comparison!
NMH
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If the legend about those arachnids were true, we would've heard much more about them before now, and there's be loads of films about them going round.
NMH was never fooled, I just want to let you know !!
I like spiders, try not to kill them when I find them - as said above, they devour flies and I like that they do that.
NMH was never fooled, I just want to let you know !!
I like spiders, try not to kill them when I find them - as said above, they devour flies and I like that they do that.
I like spiders too.
That's why I said previously the Middle Eastern spiders are not dangerous.
The scorpions on the other hand are lethal.
My ex husband worked in Saudi for two years.
Going back to spiders we had a spider for years at Huddersfield. We knew it was the same one as he only had seven legs. We called him Septimus. I would say good morning to him as I passed him on the stairs or in the bathroom.
Very strange because I have seen a 7 legged spider since I arrived in Newhaven. Either that or the local kids like pulling a leg off the spiders around here.
That's why I said previously the Middle Eastern spiders are not dangerous.
The scorpions on the other hand are lethal.
My ex husband worked in Saudi for two years.
Going back to spiders we had a spider for years at Huddersfield. We knew it was the same one as he only had seven legs. We called him Septimus. I would say good morning to him as I passed him on the stairs or in the bathroom.
Very strange because I have seen a 7 legged spider since I arrived in Newhaven. Either that or the local kids like pulling a leg off the spiders around here.
Stumpy Tim
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I hate spiders & kill them regularly. It's their fault for walking funny, especially Huntsman. Big hairy & utterly harmless. Have my boot
I once did an experiment on a spider in school. I pulled off a leg, called it, and it walked over to me. Did this until it had no legs left. When I called it, it didn't move.
The teacher asked me what this proved. I said "when you pull all the legs off, it goes deaf".
The teacher asked me what this proved. I said "when you pull all the legs off, it goes deaf".
No I do not really like spiders - I come from a country where most spiders you see could kill a small child - so I have a healthy respect for them - some spiders are fascinating - but they live outside and I live inside and NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET !!
Safeway
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Not a great fan of spiders but I do like ANTS.
Reading Posh
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The Laughing Bluebird said:
f*** THAT!
You should go to central Australia then - there are some that are over an inch long!Safeway said:
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Or maybe Septimus has followed you down to Newhaven, Yorkie. Perhaps he stowed away in one of your boxes, as he couldn't bear to be parted from his friendly, affable landlady.Yorkie said:
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