Lizzy7701 said:

Oh, I don't know, that scares me pretty badly.....

bluesbaby said:

bluesbaby said:

or this....

PEJ said:

PEJ, you are funny funny mofo.

bluesbaby said:

oops...I read it wrong...

It is scary!!

retina said:

ewww, I hate seeing those damn things...shit....I use to see them crawl outside my building. They look like they can kill you

Byron said:

photo of two huge spiders, each the size of a man's calf, was accompanied by an alarming note. The sender said his or her friend—or friend of a friend—knew a soldier stationed in Iraq who had said that these spiders could inject a sleeping soldier with anesthetic, then chew out a chunk of flesh.


Creepy? Yes. But arachnid experts say it's a hoax.


In fact, the creatures in the photo aren't spiders at all. They're actually solpugids, or solifugids (aka camel spiders, aka wind scorpions). Along with spiders, they are members of the class Arachnida.

The eight-legged solifugids have no venom glands, and the largest species is no more than 15 centimeters (6 inches) long with its legs outstretched.

"If any solpugid has anything they can inject, I haven't heard of it," said Rod Crawford, an arachnologist at the Burke Museum in Seattle, Washington.

Crawford has been debunking this and other spider myths for several years. This rumor, he said, spread to Western countries during the 1990-91 Gulf War and has now reemerged and become even more widespread with the return of U.S. troops to Iraq.

Byron said:

GOOD GAWD!!!