Ah! Not Spiders!

[toosuto]

Y'know I am now not envious of you at all slownewsday, not with these around. They are (on average) 6 inches in size, plus they can run and jump.

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Bah! They're not spiders . . .

[(Anonymous)]

At least, not technically.

Count the legs.

That said, they do have a nasty poison.

--G

Re: Bah! They're not spiders . . .

[toosuto.livejournal.com]

They are not spiders, the front to 'legs' are actually claws/arms (?) as they are a scorpion. A venom-less scorpion as a matter of fact. In the middle east they are called camel spiders (and I think that sand spiders might becoming common usage among the military currently stationed there) but they are native to the americas too where they are called 'deer killers' in Mexico.

All that being said, I still wouldn't want to wake up to one that had crawled into my sleeping bag or bed. Even if they are not as scary as a Fatal Dingo Attack.

Re: Bah! They're not spiders . . .

[slownewsday.livejournal.com]

There are things called "sand flies" too, which can cause a nasty skin disease. Cutaneous leishmaniasis. It's only treatable in Britian and the US by a series of debilitating injections over the course of four weeks. *shiver*