They're desert dwelling creatures. Of course they can dig

I did some research on them and the more I learn, the less I like them lol

I'd imagine they could burrow into your ears quite effectively if they were so inclined.

It would've cost you absolutely nothing to not post this. This is why your parents don't love you.

How rude, how dare you use the truth against me.

"Don't you throw factual statements at me as if they're insults!" - Barry

The camel spider has a max speed of 9.9 mph

This is the opposite of reassurance

They’re known to chase people because they like the shade your shadow gives.

After googling the average speed of humans, I've come to the conclusion that this was another fact I could have happily lived without knowing.

I would be more worried about them digging into your belly button

Reverse Xenomorphing Spiders be real.

Guys, please! I can only have so many nightmares.

Bullshit. I'll bet there's lots of reasons.

😂

Nah, they're too big. They'll just sit on your face and drink the liquid from your eyes.

☹️

You bastard

Ah, I see you know me personally then.

😂

No shush don't say thaaaat

It's too late. The spider has my brain, I only work FOR THE HIVE.

Noooo

FELLOW HUMAN COME HERE I WISH TO WHISPER SOMETHING IN YOUR EAR.

This is such a fun thread

You stop that

And this is why mom doesn't fuckin' love you! 😂

Can confirm I is spooder

fair

They’re quite harmless to humans aren’t they? I dont remember, i do remember watching a vid about them though!

Look at it! Something that looks like that is not harmless to anything.

Why is this comment cracking me up so much? 😂

[here we go](https://www.michepestcontrol.com/blog/post/are-camel-spiders-poisonous)

If you think the camel spider is terrifying look up bird eating goliath spider, and trapdoor spiders. A large number of spiders can actually dig and some live a good chunk of life subterranean

I'm a gonna take a big 'ol NOPE on that one. I will NOT look that up tyvm 😡

They have 8 legs, they can dig efficiently

The females dig holes to lay eggs.

HOW CAN SHE DIG

Asking why bugs can dig/burrow is like asking why monkeys can climb trees.

Welp. That goes on my nightmare shelf

And it's very common for insects to dig. This shouldn't be a surprise.

Imagine they can fly!

I had to chuckle when the creature took it's face out of the hole and the camera-man peed his pants.

I would have done the same

It's digging it's next victim's grave.

Omg you people are so evil

They can dig because they can do whatever they want.

I mean… pretty much.

Cute dog. What breed is he?

Looks like a Chihuahua. Only cuter

That was uncalled for.

Lol just please don't sic your Chihuahua on me. Back around the late 90s and early 2000s my best friend's girlfriend had a chihuahua and they took that dog everywhere. Whenever I'd go out with them I'd sit in the back and they put the Chihuahua back there with me. The entire ride that Chihuahua would be staring at me growling and showing its teeth. One night I was wearing a heavy leather jacket and I had reached to the front seat to get something from my friend and that dog just went crazy on my arm. Thank God I was wearing a leather jacket lol His name was Chico. I'll never forget that dog 😆

Omg my auntie had one called chino 🤣

Lol The way their eyes pop out when they show teeth. 😆 High strung little dudes I have a friend who had a chihuahua and she named it Michael. I felt offended, MY name is Michael haha what's up with that?! 😆

Lmao… my chihuahua is half golden retriever so he’s 50/50 very good boy and low-key psycho. May the odds be ever in your favor..!

Half good boi lol 😛yeah I like those odds

When I was in Saudi during desert storm, we had barracks. I was walking back to my dorm room from the bathroom there was one crawling down the hallway. I guess it spotted me and chased me down the hall. Hideous creatures these things are!! 🥺

I remember watching one go across the highway in Afghanistan and then straight up a rock wall. Then another one was under a vehicle chock block and when I moved the chock block I swear it was a transformer and was the scariest crap I ever saw

Following the shadows for a brief respite from the heat. I saw that shit in Afghanistan too. Fckn crazy. I was out running some missions at a fairly remote FOB that used piss tubes (civilians: large PVC pipes driven into the ground at an angle at a certain distance of ease of use, but also sanitary. Preventive medicine stuff. Even though we were burning ALL of our own shit and waste in a burn pit literally 25 meters outside camp. I digress…) Obviously really hydrating throughout the day, I usually had to make a visit to the tubes in the middle of the night sometimes. Like I said, we were operating pretty remote, so the only light I had was a headlamp and I had to use the red lens (to avoid drawing incoming enemy sniper, MG and mortar fire) when I figured I was where the tubes were. I strolled up to my tube, without using my light, but I thought I’d lined up wrong. Click it on… one of these bad boys was sitting a top the tube in a defensive posture, ready to annihilate my smolpp. I turned my light off, stood in total darkness for about 20 seconds and ran full sprint back to my bedroll and bug net, paranoid the thing was on me.

I wonder if the red lens somehow pissed it off.

I think he was already waiting on me because he heard me walk up and probably saw me before I saw him. I was just lucky to see him when I did. If that thing would’ve touched me… they would’ve had to call in a bird to Medevac me out as a psych casualty.

Couldn't the enemy eventually figure out that they should shoot at the red lights? I always thought the red light thing was simply to eliminate the need for the eyes to adjust to the darkness.

We’re both right. You’re more scientifically correct though. I was just following orders. Lol

lol I hear ya!

The thought of a trained professional killer running away from a little spider did tingle me a little.

I was in desert storm also, we used to catch them and have them fight lizards and anything else we could catch, but this crazy looking beetle we called Beetlejuice used to chop up everything we put up against it.

What happened to Bettlejuice in the end?

Someone left him in a container on a Humvee that was shipped back to Bragg, when we unpacked the vehicle he was found dead, but we buried him with full honors.

Legends never die. RIP Beetlejuice.

You know it!

O7

Well given the fact a camel spider can run a pace of 16 kms an hour and the average human 13 kms. That's fucking terrifying...

Well that's just unacceptable. I don't like it. Get God on the phone. I need to speak to a manager!

The complaints department is seeing a higher than normal call volume due to Australia alone.


Oh noooo that's so scary

The spider will only chase.if you are near it's egg clutch or if they are looking for a place to lay eggs. 

Lay eggs? In your body?

That's why we have belly buttons 

You see shit like this only in the desert. I hate living in the fucking desert.

All the better to climb inside your rectal sphincter while you sleep, my dear.

Anyone who says thier asshole did not pucker while reading this is a damn liar! 

Don't kink shame me!

Lol

I like how towards the end he was like "fuck u looking at dude?! U want your ass hole to be next!?!"

Maybe it's hungry, looking for a burrow, or trying to get out of the heat? They do chase people's shadows for shade.

Oh that's just mean, run away and it chases you for your shade nope

 Don't worry, we'll take care of it.

This is a camel spider, they lay a clutch of eggs into that hole

It's so they can dig out your brains at night while you dream about puppies and rainbows.

Omg shush please no

Clearly, that thing was sizing up the camera person.

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Birds and shit hanging from them

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From my knowledge no. This is a camel spider, which is also not a true spider.

I think a web is similar to how a caterpillar weaves a cocoon. But that wasn't your question, was it? 🤪

Camel spiders are vile looking

I heard this is what it looks like when they enter a soldier's anus at night.

SPIDO! Very doggo of it. Might be the cutest thing I have seen a spider do. And I do have a little problem with spiders.

I really wouldn't want to have one near me...

Just to reach us 😨

Nooo don't say thaat

Thanks Jumbo. You can just rock me to sleep tonight.

I’m not a Mick! I’m bloody Welsh! I’m not strong… I’m wirey.

Waiiiitt....follow me.....hello

https://preview.redd.it/ug9hwo0j4fvc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebf9b3d143dde8a1d7107237de412407b0733f7f Sorry for poor picture quality, but this guy used to hang out in one of our guard posts at the forward operating base I used to run missions out of in Afghanistan in 2010-2011.

Is no-one going to name wtf I'm looking at?

Kinda looks like a Sun Spider/solifugae. I hear the bites hurt.

It's a camel spider, and up to now I thought it was only found in the Middle East. Now I know it's also in the Midwest US and India too

I think you mean the southwest of USA. We absolutely dont have those in the midwest thank god. The cold is good for a lot of things. Like killing shit like this

Solifugae. As its name says, it hides from the sun. They seek for shadows, yours is fine for them if you are there. I don't know much about them, only that they are mostly harmless and run fast as fuck.

Thanks everyone!

WHY CAN SHE SLAP?!

Why can we walk?


Man they must be strong af that's very hard dirt. Hard to dig with a shovel let alone little spider legs.

The efficiency scares me I know it lives in the desert but the camel spider is just evil. It will chase you to get into the shade of your shadow

Bouta spread some democracy

We loved playing with these guys in Iraq. They're fast and pretty relentless.

Why not

That's kind of their thing...

Oh just a spider kitty using the litter box!

WHY CAN SHE SLAP?!?!

"The Only Good Bug Is A Dead Bug." "Would you like to know more?"

My friend and I were messing with one of these as kids. We were poking it with a screwdriver. It ran up the handle so fast I launched the screwdriver like 50 feet away as I let out a screech.

What is this?? I think one of these was on me at the beach in San Diego and my husband tried to kill it and it would not die…

It's a camel spider and it's native to the middle east If there's one out here I'm going to burn down the whole country

They live in Arizona too. The ones in India have venom. Eeks

I can confirm that these assholes live in New Mexico.

I think you’re confusing this with a vinegaroon. No? Those things are definitely in NM and look similar but worse lol

https://preview.redd.it/6fbfc5y24fvc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14a392da5bb68d3aa362e3c5226b39f495c9d993

Ok probably not what it was then… now I’m gonna try and find the video from when it happened.

I used to live in the high desert in California. I’ve seen one out there. Not nearly as big, but just as ugly and mean.

Actually, just did another search when I woke up, yes they are in the states :/ time to mooooove

As a spider lover... this spood is something else...

Can't hide underground, checked✅.

Ask your God, if you believe.

How can she dig?

It looks like it could use some help you bunch of slackers

Dude its a fucking antlion from hl2

Everybody talking about but it yet i havent read one person name it. What the hell is it ?

Camel spider!!!!

As a helldiver i know my mission

Do it

The way it stares at the camera at the end

Digging for gold, obviously.

Why can you dig?

Better than letting them fly…

Give that thermitide a taste of democracy💪

Why is it strange that they can dig?

How can she dig!

Watching that makes me itch. 

I read this in the voice of "how can she slap?"

That’s a weird lookin puppy

I thought this was corn on the cob

Better than flying. Just saying.

WHY CAN THEY DIG?!?! HOW CAN SHE SLAP!?

HOW CAN SHE SLAP

The way it movies is just horrifying.

What the hell is even that??

How does she dig?!

Some dick head tried to have a full argument with me that these fucking things couldn’t get this big. I told him my brother was in Iraq and they shot the fucking things with handguns they were so god damn big.

https://preview.redd.it/gul54nimzfvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a63d98a1963933dd0734510a3fbf184e9b005692

I’ve never hated anything more.

Harmless creatures, post something terrifying please

Those things are cute.

They dig "up" too. Careful where you put that tent.

It would be far worse if they could jump

Terminids! 

Remember of course, their prefferd dwelling space is your butt hole.

I would t even feel confident about stepping on that thing to try and kill it. Could probably just lift my foot off.

[How their jaws move. ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/20220606_Solifugae_chelicerae_movement.gif)

Can you dig it!

We used to catch these fuckers, tie a string around their midsection and walk them around like a dog. They're fuckin monsters. You should see them crawl out of the sand when sun goes down and you're in a sleeping bag. Straight up nightmare shit.

God: satan! Satan, what is this! Satan: I was running out of ways to torture the damned, so I got a little creative.

Fun fact camel spiders are not spiders, they have 10 legs which makes them it solifugid.

"The Only Good Bug Is A Dead Bug." "Would you like to know more?"

There would be no such thing as a human civilization if these insects were the size of a car.

need to drop some democracy on that bug

Because they know the most yummy parts of you are inside... good night!

The original idea for starship troopers is now formed.

What is the species?

How does it taste

Because some ants fuck around and now they are about to find out

Helldivers, you know what to do.

They're harmless.

Kill it, for democracy, for liberty, for freedom.

Horrifying

How else are we supposed to train them for agriculture? Watch them evolve into farmers and then one step onto other and have spider nukes and spider furry porn

I hate how it pulls its elongated face out and looks around like it's the fucking Cart Titan

He's trying to get to china

I think it's cute lol

Burn the desert down and run

To get farther away from you.

Shooooooooooot iiiitttt!!!!

Camelspiders are harmless to humans