Camel Spider

[paulypaul]

I came across these lovely beasts in Saudi whilst on a 6 month detatchment. Like someone posted earlier, they actually chased some guys. The sight of a big hairy ar$ed GI running with a huge spider chasing him had us in fits for ages. There were even rumours that these things even punctured land rover tyres, although I never witnessed this myself.

[JasperII]

I chose this site and camel spider on a guess. I did not know what the bug was but was trying to match the one I smashed on my patio last night. I had an encounter 8 yrs.
ago with one in my garage. I live in southern NV. These things are the scariest bug I've come across. Although I do kill blk. widows. I have quite a few southern house spiders that live in and around my house. They don't bother me. It made me laugh when the men expressed their adversion to them. But how did it get to So. NV?

[Evilwezal]

These type of bugs are Native to North America as well. I watched a tv show about some guys catching them in Texas for a study. I've seen some in Southern New Mexico in the desert before as well when I was a kid.