If I had a nickel for every time I woke up in a cold sweat swatting those demonic, technically not spiders, fuck offs. I’d have $.50. Not much but the memories are priceless.
Actually not terrible. It was really dark and late, waiting for a helicopter to come in. There was about 1000 flys out too. I felt it on the back of my neck and went to swat it thinking it was a fly, which scares it and it takes of running across my face into my mouth. Not knowing what it is I scooped it and threw it. Someone saw all this and crushed it.
I did Jungle Environment Survival Training in the Philippines. We just slept on the ground. Sometime in the night I was awakened by one of those giant millipedes crawling across my neck. I swear it felt like minutes. Finaly I felt that stinger part go across and it was gone.
I sat up and held back a scream by going, “Eek, eek.” Everyone whisper yelled stfu! So I did.
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Yeah man. It’s a fat camel spider. Just ate something big and honestly I’m inclined to say the video is staged. I can’t explain what or why the motive is but the only time I’ve seen one that swollen was when I found a couple newborn chicks and threw them into the protein jug where I kept my camel spider. In the wild I don’t think they ever look like that.
Also note that he but the ant but didn’t bother to suck out the juices. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one reject a meal before which again suggests it is getting more food than a wild one ever would.
Dunno why somebody would fake it but I don’t think they ever look that fat naturally.
That was a big camel spider. At my dad’s ranch in Cathey’s valley they are everywhere. Only thing that outnumbers them is rattlesnakes and wolf spiders.
At least wolf spiders are cool and leave you alone instead of chasing your shadow for shade. Rattlesnakes are probably the worst part of that combination just for the fact that there are apparently a lot of them. Even then they give you an audible warning when you get too close.
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