What Are the Biggest Spiders That Can Be Found Under Beds?

[renigade666]

I thought I would throw this in here...
Wouldnt want to run into one of those :(

http://spikedhumor.com/articles/1780/Huge_Camel_Spider.html

 

[Huckleberry]

Mmmm, tasty!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Mmmm, tasty!

I don't think I could do that for only $50k, better make it a million!

 

[Moonbear]

I don't think I could do that for only $50k, better make it a million!

Maybe if someone cooked it and served it with butter, but I prefer my food not still be able to bite back when I'm eating it!

I was laughing at the one woman who held her nose while biting it, as if somehow that would help get past the fact that it's legs were still wiggling while they were biting down.

 

[jim mcnamara]

Solifugids (the camel "spider" is the one in the picture) have really big chelicerae - the jaws and have no venom. They flee the sun, hence the name.

Anyway they are found in arid areas everywhere except Australia - East and West Hemispheres. If you live in near cities like Albuquerue, El Paso, or Phoenix you will see one sooner or later. I don't know if the arid areas of the Iberian peninsula sport any of them.
But I would think so.

The picture Ivan posted is deceptive wide angle photography. Most of those guys have a wingspan of 5 inches or less. Not .5m

 

[Huckleberry]

The picture Ivan posted is deceptive wide angle photography. Most of those guys have a wingspan of 5 inches or less. Not .5m

I was just fine with the idea of those things running around on the ground and hiding under rocks and shrubs. When you mentioned wingspans I thought of them flying around and was a little bit horrified at the idea.

I lived in Arizona for a few years and don't remember ever seeing one of these things. I lived for a time in the Phoenix area and also near the border to Mexico, by Nogales. They must hide during the day, or perhaps I saw one and casually mistook it for a tarantula, which are all over the place there.

 

[Moonbear]

The picture Ivan posted is deceptive wide angle photography.

Y'know, I was content to think it was a completely faked photo when first posted, but NO, people had to explain that these beasts really exist. I'm not sure if it's all that comforting that instead of being the size of a large dinner plate, they're just the size of a saucer.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Y'know, I was content to think it was a completely faked photo when first posted, but NO, people had to explain that these beasts really exist. I'm not sure if it's all that comforting that instead of being the size of a large dinner plate, they're just the size of a saucer.

Yeah, and it was impossible not to post the snopes reference to them running 25 mph while screaming. Not to mention the ability to eat your entire arm during the night.

 

[turbo]

We have no camel spiders in Maine, but we have some varieties of water spiders that are awfully intimidating when you're swimming in their lake with lots of skin exposed. They can be pretty big.