Millipede Madness

[Tuckervill]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

[Wahine]

I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.

Ever since then, centipedes and millipedes creep me out. Better you than me TH.

Oh, it looked like this and was about 6 inches long. That was a tinyone by Maui standards.

[Trekhawk]

I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.

YUK!!!!
That story and pic make me feel a little ill. Thank goodness the Millipedes are pretty small.....lots of them but small.

[Jen-Jen]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq. They are not true spiders. Story is that they run after you screaming at you the whole time. I guess their bite contains a numbing effect and they chew on at night and you don't even know it! Till you wake up in the morning and you have large open wounds!



The picture contains two of them. One biting onto the next one.

Now that is creepy! I can't even handle the small ones, I can't imagine trying to take a shoe to that!

[Jolt]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq. They are not true spiders. Story is that they run after you screaming at you the whole time. I guess their bite contains a numbing effect and they chew on at night and you don't even know it! Till you wake up in the morning and you have large open wounds!



The picture contains two of them. One biting onto the next one.

Now that is creepy! I can't even handle the small ones, I can't imagine trying to take a shoe to that!

UGH...normally spiders really don't bother me, but those look like some nasty critters--especially since they bite!

[Tuckervill]

My poor son grew up being terrified of spiders...but as he got older he kinda got over it. Then he went to Iraq, and I just had to warn him about the camel spiders! I think he was more afraid of that than getting shot! But he said he never saw one the whole time he was there.

Karen

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq.

Ok so yeah even I would run screaming from those babies!

[Jen-Jen]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

Did you know that granddaddy longlegs are VERY poisonous! I alway pick their little butts up and put them back out side!!!! Then my dad was watching a animal program and he learn this fact. However, my dad is a trickster and sometimes he lies to get you going, but I believe him on this. The reason no one dies from them and thankful for it is because their fangs are so hooked and too short that they can't straighten them enough to sink them into our flesh. Okay all one one....EEEEWWWWWW!

By the way....I no long pick up daddy-long-legs anymore.