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June 26, 2004
Critter Country
I find spiders in my bathroom from time to time (and carefully trap them and release them outside - in my neighbor's yard) but I've never seen anything like this scorpion found in a Port-a-John in Iraq:
and if I found a camel spider like this, I'd move. Somewhere. Anywhere.
These pictures were taken by "Doc", a Navy Corpsman who has a fascinating photo blog. Here are his comments on the critters:
It’s surprising how much wildlife we’ve ran into. Every night we find a bigger camel spider and the Marines gather around and say “Wow, that’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen”. They just keep getting bigger each day, really! Which leads to other sorts of fights, they’ll catch scorpions and other bugs and toss them in. They’re big and mean and they’ll eat anything, they tossed a mouse in once and you could hear the cheering from hundreds of yards away. Face it Marines are just big kids, take them to a body of water and they’ll be skipping stones for hours happy, give them a magnifying glass they’ll find an ant hole, if they invade your country expect silly stuff to be written on all the walls.
Posted by Deb at June 26, 2004 09:26 PM
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My second grade class just looked at the pictures of the camel spiders. We are at Edwards Air Force Base. A lot of these kids have father's in Iraq.
I have been telling them to go down the hall like quiet spiders. Looked up spiders just for fun, boy were we surprised.
Thank you, an image they'll never forget.
LuRoyce
Posted by: LuRoyce at July 5, 2006 12:10 PM
My second grade class just looked at the pictures of the camel spiders. We are at Edwards Air Force Base. A lot of these kids have father's in Iraq.
I have been telling them to go down the hall like quiet spiders. Looked up spiders just for fun, boy were we surprised.
Thank you, an image they'll never forget.
LuRoyce
Posted by: LuRoyce at July 5, 2006 12:12 PM
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Posted by: Tiffany at June 14, 2007 06:56 AM
We live in Pueblo West, CO and have come across 2 spiders that look just like these pictures. Is it possible for them to be here or is this something else?
Thanks
Mindy
Posted by: Mindy at July 8, 2007 01:11 PM
they can vey much be here i have found some in the deserts of nevada where i was station at...so i would be a little wearry of these things they are mean
Posted by: ashton ayers at October 20, 2010 01:57 PM