Millipede Madness

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 04-04-2008, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by Jen-Jen

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!

**Blueberry** · 04-04-2008, 07:20 AM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

Very funny

I have the heebee jeebies now

It is almost cute....almost...

**Blueberry** · 04-04-2008, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by 7rider

I think, Lisa, she was refurring (bah!) to this kind....

Yup...my buns are house buns. My home is their castle!

Awwwwww....they're beautiful

Your black and white one reminds me of one we were luck enough to share about 8 years with. The neighbors bought her for their kid, and let her run loose. We took her in - she wasn't a house bun, but the screened porch was converted for her pleasure (complete with a heated box). And she managed to come in a fair amount (like every time mom wasn't looking

). They are truly sweet animals

**jobob** · 04-04-2008, 08:26 AM

more furry, less leggy

**Tuckervill** · 04-04-2008, 09:41 AM

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

**bmccasland** · 04-04-2008, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by CA_in_NC

Very funny

I have the heebee jeebies now

It is almost cute....almost...

But Wolf Spider eyes glow a beautiful emerald green if you shine a flashlight on them at night.

don't ask how I know this tidbit...

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 04-04-2008, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by jobob

more furry, less leggy

OK I have to admit that at first glance I thought this was a picture of the BACK end of a bunny!

**7rider** · 04-04-2008, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

OK I have to admit that at first glance I thought this was a picture of the BACK end of a bunny!

Well...the back end of a bunny IS veeeerrry cute.....

**Trekhawk** · 04-04-2008, 05:33 PM

Oh those pictures are so cute.

You know I mean the bunnies right?
The others are just ICKY.

**SadieKate** · 04-04-2008, 07:04 PM

So, where're the pictures of your critters? Is Pete the only one who can operate a camera? Surely there are other volunteers in the house who could help.

**bikerz** · 04-04-2008, 09:15 PM

"It was the best of threads, it was the worst of threads..."

OK - the tail end of that bunny mid-hop is one of the cutest things I have ever seen. Not to mention the 60's bunny.

On the other hand - There is not an "eek" emoticon big enough to convey how creeped out I am by those the camel spiders.

I keep thinking: OK that's it for me on this thread - no more huge furry spiders. Then I get suckered back in by the bunnies, only to be blindsided by the HUGE SCREAMING spiders that CHASE you. Why do I keep coming back? No one's forcing me to look at this thread. It's like I've signed myself up for some sort of weird psych experiment.

How much can I take?

**snapdragen** · 04-04-2008, 09:58 PM

They have their own website!

http://www.camelspiders.net/

And their top speed is only 10 mph...

**lph** · 04-05-2008, 02:03 AM

AAGH! Finally got around to reading this thread. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

And to think I get mildly creeped out by the very small spiders that tend to swarm over our back patio, Harry Potter in the Forbidden Forest-like. And the single largish spider that I shook out of a curtain once that went audibly THUMP on the floor and scuttled away alarmingly fast. We don't have ANYTHING remotely as creepy as the bugs y'all have posted. One mildly poisonous snake, that's all, otherwise it's large furry non-creepy mammals out there.

**DirtDiva** · 04-05-2008, 04:34 AM

**snapdragen** · 04-05-2008, 07:24 AM

OK DD - what the hell is that!

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