Ya that map is not right...I think they have been moved, by us humans, to all over the U.S. I know they are here in Nevada too. Black widows are a dime a dozen here too..God I hate those things...There are very few spiders I can't deal with but those two are the exceptions!

 

Those are called Camel spiders...........and yes they are fast as crap, if i see one i just walk the other way cause i hate spiders, especially flesh eating spiders such as a camel spider

We had one guy that went to sleep in his tent, well when he woke up he felt a wet spot on his leg, he didnt realize it for like fifteen more minutes that he had a softball sized chung of flesh missing. The Camel spider numbs the area and then eats away at the flesh without the victim nowing it....

 

from now on, we're on a need to know basis only. Jesus christ.

 

ok, thank you. Even though I'm not over in the sandbox, I think it'll be several nights now before I get any sleep.

2girls1cup...I made it about 10 seconds into the clip. Oh wow, two hot lesbians, what are they doing with that cup? OW OW OW OW OW OW WHERE'S THE X CLICK THE X CLICK THE X!!!!!!!!!

There's always the old favorites of tubgirl and goatse. DO NOT GOOGLE THOSE! You've been warned. If you do, do it on dial up with your mouse over the x and your finger on the button so you can close it on the first urge to hurl. With dial up it'll load slow enough that you don't have the entire image pop right in front of you.

 

Back in July, after I found my house, I took a bunch of pix to show friends and family.

I had one shot of the place take from across the street.

After I had returned to SoCal I showed the pic to a friend of mine who pointed out a gigantic spiderweb that was high in the tree.



It's too bad you can't see this full rez because it's impressively big and actually was even more so in real life.

Just by looking at the scale, I figured there was some creature living up there that was large enough to eat a Buick Roadmaster.

So I asked a friend of mine who lived a block away from my new place to walk by and check it out and report back (assuming they lived to tell the tale).

Turns out the web was considerably bigger than it appears in the pic. It went back further into the tree. No sign of a giant spider though and no reports of lost children or pets or missing cars or trucks.

Fortunately, it was gone by the time I moved in. I'm thinking of buying a flame-thrower though, on the off chance that whatever built that thing returns next spring.

 

I have seen that. It cant be real!

 

OH THANK GOD ! ! ! !

 

That could be some kind of tree worm. They make webs too.

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Here's a link:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/21202/bgimage

 

You know, we had those big spider webs in the trees we had in Louisiana, and as much as we looked, we never found the spider that built them.

I have seen some pretty big spiders in Texas, smaller than the wolf, but big enough to easily see they had hair on them.

I was a 31F Team Sergeant, and we were installing a relay antenna. We found a spot we thought woudl best work given the point we had to establish via LOS to the two sites. as we appraoched the hill, we saw a hole in the dirt. The first thing I thought about was "Ground bees"- so I didn't want to mess around. My fear was confirmed when seconds later the largest wasp I've ever seen in life, (it's body- not the wings) easily 2 - 2.5 inches long, tip to tail) landed near the hole. We backed away slowly. No one wants to disturb a nest of ground bees/hornets- trust me- plus it was a long way back to the ER.

So, as we backed away- the way we came in- the wasp went down in the hole. I knew it. I thought...

Still looking at the hole, the wasp backed out of the hole, butt first. and, as more of the wasp emerged, we saw him dragging out a big **** spider out of that hole. A big hairy spider. He climbed on his back, and seemed to sting him 4-5 times. The spider never moved. I guess the wasp noticed us, and flew away.

With mutant wasps, and big hairy spiders in th esame location, needless to say we found somewhere else to install the antenna.

 

around here our trees get what's called bag worms that kind of look like spider webs.

 

How'd you like to come across this in your hallway when you're stumbling out of bed, half-asleep, and barefooted.




This is officially the largest spider I have ever seen... I'm glad they didn't make it down to where I was in Saudi Arabia.

We already had rats the size of cats. These things remind me of the crawlers on Alien.

 

"Solifugae are the subject of many myths and exaggerations about their size, speed, behavior, appetite, and lethality. They are not especially large, the biggest having a legspan of perhaps 12 centimetres (5 in). They are fast on land compared to other invertebrates, the fastest can run perhaps 16 kilometres per hour (10 mph), nearly half as fast as the fastest human sprinter. Members of this order of Arachnida apparently have no venom, with the possible exception of one species in India (see below) and do not spin webs.

In the Middle East, it is widely rumored among American and coalition military forces stationed there that Solifugae will feed on living human flesh. The story goes that the creature will inject some anaesthetizing venom into the exposed skin of its sleeping victim, then feed voraciously, leaving the victim to awaken with a gaping wound. Solifugae, however, do not produce such an anaesthetic, and they do not attack prey larger than themselves unless threatened. Other stories include tales of them leaping into the air, disemboweling camels, screaming, and running alongside moving humvees; all of these tales are dubious. Due to their bizarre appearance many people are startled or even afraid of them. The greatest threat they pose to humans, however, is their bite in self-defense when one tries to handle them. There is no chance of death directly caused by the bite, but, due to the strong muscles of their chelicerae, they can produce a proportionately large, ragged wound that is prone to infection."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_spider

 

When was that? what school dental, medical, or signal?

Its been a LONG time since it got that cold here !
I see a black widow just about any time I look in an inground water meter around here.
Talk about smell this it stinks, sounds like the cup girls thing. I still have not looked , I dont need to, I see people fighting the gag reflex just when they talk about it.

 

I was in Augusta, GA from 4 Dec 1991 - April 2nd, 1992. Signal School, 31F GTE's MSE school, 16-weeks. It must've been January or February of 1992 when the ice storm hit. It got bone chilling cold that week. We were out training in the SEN & LEN, and they said the outdoor temp was 8 degrees. We went to 20 minute outdoor rotations, for training on the generators. Wouldn't have been so bad, had anyone known the temp was going to drop. Of course, that wouldn't have helped the new Privates because unless something has changed, uncle Sam doesn't issue thermal underwear. Being a 4-year vet when I went back to AIT in late 1991, I was fully armed- but to no avail, since my thermals were tucked safely into my duffle bag, in my nice, warm barracks room. Doing me absolutely no good.

That's when you know Korea is cold. They issue you thermal underwear. Way better than the ones you see at Wal-Mart. In Germany you won't get the thermal undies, but you do get the extreme cold weather parka and pants, with liner.

Wildflecken (West Germany) 1988- got so cold, I had all that crap on, thermals, BDU pants, winterliner, winter-weather pants, and wet-weather gear- and still felt like I was outside naked. That's still probably the coldest day I ever spent in my life, was the 13 hours we spent on that open range, in high wind, and knee deep snow. With zero visibility, and temperatures at or below zero, they closed the range, before we did night fire. Have you ever seen 250 people fit in a building that might have been 500 sq. feet total?

Even with all those bodies in close proximity, it was still very cold.


Hat's off to those in northern Alaska, Siberia, and the Arctic.

 

The only thing I was truely sorry for googling and following links for was necrotizing fasciitis. Very interesting images though.