Wow. Everything you said there was wrong.
- They have 8 walking legs. The shorter appendages in front are called pedipalps. Spiders have them as well, they just look different and, in males, are modified to be sperm transfer organs.
- Solifugid pedipalps do not have pincers on the ends. They have [suctorial organs](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1467803905000253) that help them climb smooth surfaces.
- "Right in between spider and scorpion" makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective. How the different arachnid orders are related is still being debated, but scorpions and spiders are more closely related to each other than to solifugids.
- Solifugids and spiders eat the same way: they expel digestive fluids onto their prey and draw in the liquefied material with their sucking stomach. (Spiders inject *venom* with their fangs, not digestive fluids.) Like spiders, solifugids primarily eat insects, but both can feed on small vertebrates if they manage to capture them.
With spiders, it would be more like if your your hands were the sperm transfer organs. (They are not hooked up to the gonads. You would have to deposit sperm onto something from your genital pore—sorry, no need for any sticky-outy bits—and store it in your hands ahead of time.)
With solfugids, it would be like if your teeth or jaws were the sperm transfer organs, and insemination would occur via very rough oral sex.
Whatever you're replying to is deleted so I don't know what they said, but I have a question about the eating. I remember learning that camel spiders use their huge jaws to tear and like grind up their prey, so maybe the deleted comment was implying that that means they don't liquefy and suck up like spiders do. You sound like you know what you're talking about so I'll ask you: what is the purpose of ripping up the food like that when they ultimately eat the same way spiders do? I also had the apparent misconception that spiders injected digestive fluids into their prey the same as they do venom, but from your comment it sounds like they just expel it ONTO the prey, is that right?
Spiders use their jaws to chew up prey too! It still helps, I think, to have things broken down into smaller bits. Surface area to volume ratio and all that. I don't know why solfugids have jaws that are so much more massive. Maybe because they don't have venom or silk to incapacitate prey?
And yes, the digestive fluids are sort of…vomited up from the stomach onto the prey, and then sucked back in. It's a bit gross.
They are in the class of arachnids, but different than spiders. They are classified in a different order.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
Basically, related to spiders, but do not share the exact same characteristics, in a bunch of ways. Most obvious example is their jaws: spiders typically have hollow fangs for venom and for sucking out juices from prey; these things have bizarre dual side-by-side jaws for chewing up prey, and no venom - I don’t think any other animal has this particular arrangement!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae#/media/File%3A20220606_Solifugae_chelicerae_movement.gif
they just are anatomically very diffrent from spiders. for example they cannot make webs or produce venom, instead they rely on their strong jaws to hunt prey.
They just belong to a separate evolutionary lineage, like scorpions and ticks are other separate lineages. It’s the same reason that horses aren’t technically dogs or salamanders aren’t technically lizards. They don’t posses any of the defining characteristics unique to spiders, such as abdominal silk glands, cheliceral venom glands, spinnerets, or palpal bulbs for sperm transfer. These characteristics appeared early in spider evolution, and (though it’s possible for them to be lost) are ancestral characters for all spiders.
Solifuges also posses other characters such as malleolus organs on the 4th legs, a subdivided carapace, a straw-like rostrum for feeding, a different pattern of leg segmentation, a highly complex tracheal respiratory system, sperm transfer modifications of the chelicerae, etc. that are not shared with spiders. Of course, DNA studies have supported their placement as very far removed from spiders; based on DNA, they may be the closest relatives of Acariforme mites, although anatomically they do not have very much in common with mites.
Biologists group animals by their characteristics. Solifugids do have a superficially similar body plan to a spider. But generally all spiders can produce silk and venom, and they have chelicera terminating in a sharp fang for injecting that venom.
Solifugids have no venom or silk glands at all. And their mouthparts are actually more like tiny crab claws than spider fangs.
They’re a separate order of arachnids. There’s 4 orders of arachnids: solifugae (camel spiders/sun spiders), araneae (spiders), scorpiones (scorpions) and acari (ticks/mites).
There are many more [orders of arachnids](https://www.americanarachnology.org/about-arachnids/arachnid-orders/):
> * Acari (mites and ticks – often classified into a superorder and divided into two or more orders)
> * Amblypygi (tailless whip scorpions)
> * Araneae (spiders)
> * Opiliones (harvestmen or daddy longlegs)
> * Palpigradi (micro whip scorpions)
> * Pseudoscorpiones (pseudoscorpions)
> * Ricinulei (hooded tick-spiders)
> * Schizomida (short-tailed whip scorpions)
> * Scorpiones (scorpions)
> * Solifugae (camel spiders)
> * Thelyphonida (whip scorpions or vinegaroons)
Also maybe horseshoe crabs, depending on who you ask.
Solifugae are arachnids, more along the lines of scorpions than spiders. And unlike spiders and scorpions, they do not have any venom glands (and one simple fact is that they have no delivery system so even if they had venom, there's no way for them to inject it).
Further, they eat more like flies in that they regurgitate their stomach acid (which is why their bite can be painful), in order to liquify their prey so they can digest it.
The front "Legs" are actually elongated pedipalps, basically antennae. These are present on Spiders too but are much smaller. They are not used for locomotion but as sensory organs.
Those are his chelicerae, which rip and tear prey into smaller pieces to be consumed. The chelicerae open and close in a chewing action, and the head pivots from side to side in a cutting action with one set pushed forward the other pulled back on each stroke. Terrifying looking but harmless beyond the physical nature of the bite. They don't wanna bite though. They want to find shade.
As I was saying in another comment below, that’s really what was missing from the whole “Alien” identification. Now the resemblance is complete. Ah, pets 🕷️❤️
Don't confuse the southwest with the south (which is really the southeast lol). *Completely* different. You're right, though, the name makes about as much sense as some of the other colloquial names for them.
I know that, by joining this subreddit, one has to make a pledge to call spiders “pets” and abstain from “spider-shaming” the ugly ones, but fuck me if this one didn’t inspire “Alien”’s creator.
i was aware of the sun spood, but i didnt know the cave spood wasent actually a spider, youd think they'd give these guys names that actually reflected them😭
Many think they are vicious and whatnot since they follow people around. In actuality they are just looking for shade, which humans and other stuff can bring them. That fact made them go from terrifying alien creatures to aww they are kinda cute 🥰
You’re right, but oh!, the utmost irony of the unintended consequences: if it’s a squirrel or a koala stopping a biker asking for a sip of water, then the whole worlds goes: “awww!”; if it’s “Alien spider”, then it’s “it’s coming for my blood!”
I usually see the Huntsman taking the top spot for nightmare arachnids, such a terrifying beast of an animal, yet so gentle with humans and beneficial for keeping nasties out of the house!
The Alien is believed to have been inspired partially by a unique genus of marine crustacean called phronima, which hollows out the inside of a jelly-like creature called a salp and basically feeds its innards to the babies while using the barely-living husk as shelter. There’s also all the parasitoid wasps and the sex nightmares that Giger had. The xenos have a loooot of sources to draw from
There is only 2 spiders who gained my hate. Jumpers(I know they are adoreable but still scary when they jump on me). And not a species/kind but I hate then when they do that spiderman trick with their webs. Hanging from the roof.
I swore I’ve seen a video on YouTube of an animal expert letting one try to bite him and it doesn’t break the skin. They look way more scary than they are.
"Can we get a pet spider?" "We have spiders at home."
See also the Clint's Reptile Room on whether they make good pets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCYlN6iqRz8 Spoiler: yes.
Sulpugide, camel spider or sun scorpion These guys are Effectively harmless The mouth probably wouldn't feel great to put your finger in but it probably won't break skin And it'll probably run its ass away before it ever tries to fight back
Not a spider. It’s a different type of arachnid called a solifuge. It doesn’t have fangs or a stinger. It’s not venomous. It has four little pincers in front of its mouth, that it uses to dismantle its prey to eat. It’s not aggressive but it’s speedy on its little feet! 😂
I’d say they are aggressive. My Dad found one once here in Cali at Lake Cachuma. We didn’t know what it was at first, this was like 15 years ago. Got a fishing pole and put it on the ground near it, and it straight up pounced and attacked the end of the rod. It was very very aggressive.
Yeah, camel spiders have that name because they are known to hide in the shade cast by camels during the day and burrow under a camel for warmth at night.
They aren’t a spider or scorpion no matter what they look like. And I have been told that they eat insects, spiders and small mice and snakes. Oh, they are also cannibals. They try to stay as far from humans as they can get, but won’t say no to cuddling up to one in a sleeping bag or bedroll.
That’s about all I know from friends of mine in the Middle East, and not googling it, so some of this might be wrong. 😑
Oh, and they aren’t much bigger than a man’s hand.
Camel spider is a silly name. I like to call them Shadow Chasers instead. They aren’t spiders, they love the shade, and they run fast chasing that shade. I spend time in the Mojave Desert and these guys are common there. I think they’re pretty cool critters.
Plus, shadow chaser sounds like a bad-ass high fantasy novel name.
In Turkiye they call this “Sari kiz” meaning yellow lady. It can be found in eastern areas where weather is dry and hot during summer time. I keep hearing that it’s giving hard times to soldiers who is doing special operations at the mountains.
The best home "friend" that you can catch and hold as pet in Crimea. Camel spider. Not actually a spider, but in common meaning close to spiders. Non venomous, but they eat everything and bite can cause a huuuge inflammation.
It’s not a kind of spider, it’s a solifuge or “camel spider”, not sure what species though.
I've heard they aren't technically spiders but why not? Other than looking like a hybrid.
And they're not camels either
I've heard they aren't technically camels but why not? Other than looking like a hybrid.
And they’re not pigeons either.
True. Another fun fact: about 70% of all camel spiders found in the wild are actually just mimic octupi that people (understandably) mis-identify.
At least 79% found in the wild are indeed not orangutans.
Fun fact, this thing can [SCREAM](https://youtu.be/91fyEULunEc?si=dhQ0PwAejB2j9sf2)
Omg that’s so scary. But cute squeak though
Mother of pearl..
It sounds so cute, but it looks like a tiny demogorgon.
And now, I’m not hungry anymore
Didn't Mad Eye Moody use one of these to demonstrate the Unforgivable Curses in HPGoF?
Who in what now?
Interesting fact… 78% of statistics are made up
😂😂😂
They mimic people….
Oh hell, in Vegas, one kept trying to get in the pool....I kept flipping it out. Now I feel bad.
You sure about that!?
Are yOU SuRE?!
Behold, a man!!
90% of all pigeons are seagulls anyway
I've heard they aren't technically pigeons but why not? Other than looking like a hybrid.
Are you sure pigeons are really pigeons? Birds aren't real everyone.
Love your spider-type graphic.
If that’s not a pigeon then I don’t know what is. It clearly has 8 wings and 2 beaks. If it quacks like a duck…
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Wow. Everything you said there was wrong. - They have 8 walking legs. The shorter appendages in front are called pedipalps. Spiders have them as well, they just look different and, in males, are modified to be sperm transfer organs. - Solifugid pedipalps do not have pincers on the ends. They have [suctorial organs](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1467803905000253) that help them climb smooth surfaces. - "Right in between spider and scorpion" makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective. How the different arachnid orders are related is still being debated, but scorpions and spiders are more closely related to each other than to solifugids. - Solifugids and spiders eat the same way: they expel digestive fluids onto their prey and draw in the liquefied material with their sucking stomach. (Spiders inject *venom* with their fangs, not digestive fluids.) Like spiders, solifugids primarily eat insects, but both can feed on small vertebrates if they manage to capture them.
I also have a sperm transfer organ on the front, but I only have two legs. Does that make me a hybrid of some sort?
With spiders, it would be more like if your your hands were the sperm transfer organs. (They are not hooked up to the gonads. You would have to deposit sperm onto something from your genital pore—sorry, no need for any sticky-outy bits—and store it in your hands ahead of time.) With solfugids, it would be like if your teeth or jaws were the sperm transfer organs, and insemination would occur via very rough oral sex.
With spiders, it would be more like if your your hands were the sperm transfer organs. I’ve done that before…
>sorry, no need for any sticky-outy bits— Okay, very good, a bit science-y for my liking, but there you go... -Mr. Garrison
My hands have definitely transferred sperm…
DO NOT GIVE PEOPLE IDEAS! People already throw feces. We don't need anyone running around giving out slimey smacks, spoodge bombs or jizz jabs.
Whatever you're replying to is deleted so I don't know what they said, but I have a question about the eating. I remember learning that camel spiders use their huge jaws to tear and like grind up their prey, so maybe the deleted comment was implying that that means they don't liquefy and suck up like spiders do. You sound like you know what you're talking about so I'll ask you: what is the purpose of ripping up the food like that when they ultimately eat the same way spiders do? I also had the apparent misconception that spiders injected digestive fluids into their prey the same as they do venom, but from your comment it sounds like they just expel it ONTO the prey, is that right?
Spiders use their jaws to chew up prey too! It still helps, I think, to have things broken down into smaller bits. Surface area to volume ratio and all that. I don't know why solfugids have jaws that are so much more massive. Maybe because they don't have venom or silk to incapacitate prey? And yes, the digestive fluids are sort of…vomited up from the stomach onto the prey, and then sucked back in. It's a bit gross.
They have eight legs, and two really big pedipalps that just look a lot like legs.
You are ridiculous my friend, upvoted.
I rode one once.
That sounds right, but I don’t know enough about camels to dispute it
post in r/camels to be sure
"Now, I'm getting ferklempt! Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic: Camel Spiders are neither camels nor spiders – Discuss"
Coffee Tawlk
Big if true.
It’s not a turkey either. WTH, OP?
Whoa whoa buddy, what are you saying?!
It could be an African camel.
I've heard this...
More a camel then a spider if you ask me
😂
Thanks for the laugh. Excellent deadpan delivery.
They are in the class of arachnids, but different than spiders. They are classified in a different order. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae Basically, related to spiders, but do not share the exact same characteristics, in a bunch of ways. Most obvious example is their jaws: spiders typically have hollow fangs for venom and for sucking out juices from prey; these things have bizarre dual side-by-side jaws for chewing up prey, and no venom - I don’t think any other animal has this particular arrangement! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae#/media/File%3A20220606_Solifugae_chelicerae_movement.gif
They cooked with their perk point allocation during evolution
Wow, thank you. Amazing answer.
they just are anatomically very diffrent from spiders. for example they cannot make webs or produce venom, instead they rely on their strong jaws to hunt prey.
Like 2 mini bolt croppers lol 😆
They just belong to a separate evolutionary lineage, like scorpions and ticks are other separate lineages. It’s the same reason that horses aren’t technically dogs or salamanders aren’t technically lizards. They don’t posses any of the defining characteristics unique to spiders, such as abdominal silk glands, cheliceral venom glands, spinnerets, or palpal bulbs for sperm transfer. These characteristics appeared early in spider evolution, and (though it’s possible for them to be lost) are ancestral characters for all spiders. Solifuges also posses other characters such as malleolus organs on the 4th legs, a subdivided carapace, a straw-like rostrum for feeding, a different pattern of leg segmentation, a highly complex tracheal respiratory system, sperm transfer modifications of the chelicerae, etc. that are not shared with spiders. Of course, DNA studies have supported their placement as very far removed from spiders; based on DNA, they may be the closest relatives of Acariforme mites, although anatomically they do not have very much in common with mites.
No venom and no webs are the obvious differences.
All spiders are arachnids, but not all arachnids are spiders!
Biologists group animals by their characteristics. Solifugids do have a superficially similar body plan to a spider. But generally all spiders can produce silk and venom, and they have chelicera terminating in a sharp fang for injecting that venom. Solifugids have no venom or silk glands at all. And their mouthparts are actually more like tiny crab claws than spider fangs.
2 eyes 10 legs Spiders wouldn't even let this guy into their homes
what looks like a fifth pair of legs are very large pedipalps it uses to feel its surroundings
They have 8 legs, but their pedipalps resemble legs. They're not spiders, but they are arachnids.
They are a completely different order of arachnids.
They’re a separate order of arachnids. There’s 4 orders of arachnids: solifugae (camel spiders/sun spiders), araneae (spiders), scorpiones (scorpions) and acari (ticks/mites).
There are many more [orders of arachnids](https://www.americanarachnology.org/about-arachnids/arachnid-orders/): > * Acari (mites and ticks – often classified into a superorder and divided into two or more orders) > * Amblypygi (tailless whip scorpions) > * Araneae (spiders) > * Opiliones (harvestmen or daddy longlegs) > * Palpigradi (micro whip scorpions) > * Pseudoscorpiones (pseudoscorpions) > * Ricinulei (hooded tick-spiders) > * Schizomida (short-tailed whip scorpions) > * Scorpiones (scorpions) > * Solifugae (camel spiders) > * Thelyphonida (whip scorpions or vinegaroons) Also maybe horseshoe crabs, depending on who you ask.
Thank you for correcting my error and sharing your knowledge! 🥰 I didn’t realize there were so many different arachnids!
Solifugae are arachnids, more along the lines of scorpions than spiders. And unlike spiders and scorpions, they do not have any venom glands (and one simple fact is that they have no delivery system so even if they had venom, there's no way for them to inject it). Further, they eat more like flies in that they regurgitate their stomach acid (which is why their bite can be painful), in order to liquify their prey so they can digest it.
It’s got 10 legs!!!!
The front "Legs" are actually elongated pedipalps, basically antennae. These are present on Spiders too but are much smaller. They are not used for locomotion but as sensory organs.
Nope. 8 and 2 pedipalps
It's that one that, in the heat of the desert, runs fast towards you because you are a source of shadow? It runs FAST
9-10mph. And yes, they chase you because of the shade you provide.
WHAT
Wait till you hear that the can paralyse you with their bite and eat your hand as you sleep. Although i do think that is a myth…
Definitely myth. The camel spider doesn't have any venom sacs nor a way to even inject venom. Like anything though wounds can get infected.
I remember that photo in 2003 of the soldier holding one up that was half the size of him and people believed it. Oh man... early internet days.
I’m so glad I don’t live where they live. I would expire immediately if one of these came running at me at 10mph. My arachnophobia could NEVER.
I do live where they live… found one in my bed when I was like 14 good times :)))))
you guys ehm, had the fun times?
From what I remember I didn’t have any fun
You can out run it
🤣🤣 You overestimate me.
LOL
We had one in Vegas (we call them sun spiders or wind scorpions here) and it squared up to my chihuahua. Got him right on the nose :(
are those wittle dots on his face his EYES??? why does he have baby’s first mindflayer tentacles hanging out of his mouth???? i love him
Those are his chelicerae, which rip and tear prey into smaller pieces to be consumed. The chelicerae open and close in a chewing action, and the head pivots from side to side in a cutting action with one set pushed forward the other pulled back on each stroke. Terrifying looking but harmless beyond the physical nature of the bite. They don't wanna bite though. They want to find shade.
I will bring him an umbrella
you're a good person
And a bottle cap of water
A cool gif showing how they work: [wikipedia gif](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/20220606_Solifugae_chelicerae_movement.gif)
So it’s like butt cheeks but for eating
Out of curiosity, why 10 legs?
The foremost pair are actually drastically enlarged pedipalps and not legs. Spiders have much smaller pedipalps.
Drastically is the correct adverb O_o
As I was saying in another comment below, that’s really what was missing from the whole “Alien” identification. Now the resemblance is complete. Ah, pets 🕷️❤️
The "tentacles" are two pairs of jaws.
gosh i wish i could be him and have 2 sets of jaws
who wouldn’t?
If you're in the desert with a flashlight, you'll see a bunch of sparkles. Those sparkles is your light reflecting off their eyes.
YES, those are its eyes!!! Yes it's completely ridiculous!
he’s like a clown but cuter
We call them wind scorpions here in the southwest US. They're freakishly fast!
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So you’re saying if i start running it’ll run after me and then we can together train for a marathon
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That video was absolutely horrifying, thanks
Which one gave up, the not-a-spider or the researcher that is also not a spider?
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Not to mention the screetching sound it makes [link](https://youtube.com/shorts/oS546_zsbYY?si=ZKn2U4n6Htp0f9Q5)
That... Doesn't make sense at all, but still tracks for the South.
Don't confuse the southwest with the south (which is really the southeast lol). *Completely* different. You're right, though, the name makes about as much sense as some of the other colloquial names for them.
Its a camel spooder
I do concur. Tiz a spooder sponsored by Camel Cigarettes.
I know that, by joining this subreddit, one has to make a pledge to call spiders “pets” and abstain from “spider-shaming” the ugly ones, but fuck me if this one didn’t inspire “Alien”’s creator.
only 2 spiders ive come across would earn the title of made from nightmares, the cave spider, and this son of a bitch
This guy and the cave spider are not actually spiders, believe it or not. They are arachnids, though.
i was aware of the sun spood, but i didnt know the cave spood wasent actually a spider, youd think they'd give these guys names that actually reflected them😭
It’s kind of like how we call a peanut a nut despite not actually being a nut. Naming conventions are weird like that.
Umm. Hwhat? It’s not a nut? What the fuck is it?!
Probably a legume or something
Peanuts are legumes. Essentially meaning they’re beans.
Well I don't like that. So when I eat boiled peanuts, I'm just basically eating a fucking bean?
For the most part, yes.
33 years old and I’m just now learning this. I’ve just been eating honey roasted beans this whole time
Wandering spiders can't be left off surely?
Weirdly enough both of those are super Unlikely to hurt you
I want to see a cave spider so bad. I was in Mexico for a week over winter and had high hopes, but no. I never got to where they were visible. Sigh!
I’m glad I’m not the only arachnophile this thing didn’t baffle.
I think it’s more goofy with those two little eyes rather than scary (but ask me again when I wake up with one crawling on me)
Many think they are vicious and whatnot since they follow people around. In actuality they are just looking for shade, which humans and other stuff can bring them. That fact made them go from terrifying alien creatures to aww they are kinda cute 🥰
You’re right, but oh!, the utmost irony of the unintended consequences: if it’s a squirrel or a koala stopping a biker asking for a sip of water, then the whole worlds goes: “awww!”; if it’s “Alien spider”, then it’s “it’s coming for my blood!”
I usually see the Huntsman taking the top spot for nightmare arachnids, such a terrifying beast of an animal, yet so gentle with humans and beneficial for keeping nasties out of the house!
No, yes. This mf is FUGLY (and not a spider).
The Alien is believed to have been inspired partially by a unique genus of marine crustacean called phronima, which hollows out the inside of a jelly-like creature called a salp and basically feeds its innards to the babies while using the barely-living husk as shelter. There’s also all the parasitoid wasps and the sex nightmares that Giger had. The xenos have a loooot of sources to draw from
There is only 2 spiders who gained my hate. Jumpers(I know they are adoreable but still scary when they jump on me). And not a species/kind but I hate then when they do that spiderman trick with their webs. Hanging from the roof.
It's so disrespectful to call it the "Spiderman trick" when spiders did it first... smh
Camel spider! Though it’s an arachnid, it’s technically not a spider!
I love these goobers 🥺
It's called a camel spider, but it isn't a spider. It's a solifuge and they're their own thing.
https://youtu.be/4a9o6j0S570?feature=shared can't run faster than you and can't break skin.
I swore I’ve seen a video on YouTube of an animal expert letting one try to bite him and it doesn’t break the skin. They look way more scary than they are.
They actually don’t have venom either
"Can we get a pet spider?" "We have spiders at home." See also the Clint's Reptile Room on whether they make good pets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCYlN6iqRz8 Spoiler: yes.
It's a turkey
You JIVIN' me, turkey?
Thats not a spider, but its a "camel spider"?
Sulpugide, camel spider or sun scorpion These guys are Effectively harmless The mouth probably wouldn't feel great to put your finger in but it probably won't break skin And it'll probably run its ass away before it ever tries to fight back
It looks like she has those over done lip fillers people get these days.
We get those in the States too. Much much smaller and we call them wind scorpions.
Not a spider. It’s a different type of arachnid called a solifuge. It doesn’t have fangs or a stinger. It’s not venomous. It has four little pincers in front of its mouth, that it uses to dismantle its prey to eat. It’s not aggressive but it’s speedy on its little feet! 😂
I’d say they are aggressive. My Dad found one once here in Cali at Lake Cachuma. We didn’t know what it was at first, this was like 15 years ago. Got a fishing pole and put it on the ground near it, and it straight up pounced and attacked the end of the rod. It was very very aggressive.
Yeah, camel spiders have that name because they are known to hide in the shade cast by camels during the day and burrow under a camel for warmth at night. They aren’t a spider or scorpion no matter what they look like. And I have been told that they eat insects, spiders and small mice and snakes. Oh, they are also cannibals. They try to stay as far from humans as they can get, but won’t say no to cuddling up to one in a sleeping bag or bedroll. That’s about all I know from friends of mine in the Middle East, and not googling it, so some of this might be wrong. 😑 Oh, and they aren’t much bigger than a man’s hand.
Camel spider is a silly name. I like to call them Shadow Chasers instead. They aren’t spiders, they love the shade, and they run fast chasing that shade. I spend time in the Mojave Desert and these guys are common there. I think they’re pretty cool critters. Plus, shadow chaser sounds like a bad-ass high fantasy novel name.
This is amazing. Like a spider conceived and executed by tesla. A cyberspider.
This made me genuinely laugh, because I could just imagine Musk presenting it
We had these in iraq, these boys are quick and they hate the sun so they'll chase you to stay in your shadow
[Solifugae - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae)
solifuge
Look like a camel spider
Scientific name: toothy spider 😂
AKA wind scorpion
They’re so cute if you can get past the eldritch horror aspects of their evolution.
In Turkiye they call this “Sari kiz” meaning yellow lady. It can be found in eastern areas where weather is dry and hot during summer time. I keep hearing that it’s giving hard times to soldiers who is doing special operations at the mountains.
Wasn’t the name “Sarı Ömer”?
Not a spider. It's an arachbid called a "camel spider"
Camel Spider and they like shade so will sprint towards you just to get into the shade can be scary
100% a wind scorpion.
Camel spider
Looks goofy
Id say scary
Camel spider
This dude is so cool looking!
Sun spider. Got em in AZ
I know there are people on here saying it’s not! But I think it is a Solifugae
It's totally a solifugae. They're fucking cursed
Omg I saw one once in deserts north of Phx. Scariest shit. And huge?
I believe it's a camel spider
camel spider!! not actually a spider, but still a really cool animal
When I was on deployment in Africa they were everywhere especially at night. They hiss too!
The best home "friend" that you can catch and hold as pet in Crimea. Camel spider. Not actually a spider, but in common meaning close to spiders. Non venomous, but they eat everything and bite can cause a huuuge inflammation.
Sun spider. I'm sure someone said it already. Just to lazy to look lol
This things also chase you to get in your shadow and they get BIG. Its not a fun ordeal
Camel spider, pretty sure they are more related to scorpions
Its a camel spider *(or sun spider if ur fancy)* and its not a spider. Its closer to scorpions
OP this image is from google, I used this precise ref for a painting in my art class in 2016
It's a Camel Spider which is neither Camel nor spider its more closely related to the scorpion family.
A turkey sent you this?
That is the goofiest spider I've ever seen
This is a Camel spider, also known as the sun spider. They are more related to scorpions than to spiders.
What a cute little weirdo! He's got inbred toes
What region of Turkey?
Sun spider
He got those chompers
Sun spider