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    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jen-Jen View Post
    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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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jen-Jen View Post
    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!
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