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