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I've been a reptile and amphibian enthusiast all my life, since I was a young child and got into invertebrates later on in life, tarantulas, scorpions certainly being the available animals in the pet world. And then when the Iraq conflict started, a new type of arachnid was introduced to me and the United States. And that is the solafugid. That is its real name. It has a million little nicknames, the most common ones are camel spiders and/or wind scorpions, sometimes sun spiders. A lot of legends about these animals were perpetuated by the internet when a couple of our guys in uniform were stationed in Iraq and came across these in the desert.
That's where that particular species came from. Then unfortunately, the urban legends started. It started with one G.I. holding three of them clustered together on the barrel of a gun, and the perspective of the camera shot made it look like they were three feet long. And they're not. They don't get more than four or five, maybe six inches for a large one. And since I've studied them I've found there's over 1,000 species of these throughout the world. They're centered certainly Middle East and those types of areas, but we even have them here in the United States. Arizona and New Mexico we have solafugids running around. They're also confusing because their two pedipalps here on the top look like legs. These two long, elongated pieces in the front are not two extra legs. Tarantulas have them, too. They're shorter. But it looks like he has ten legs. He doesn't. He has eight legs. He's an arachnid species. The scary part about the animal, though, is its jaws. He has an incredible pair of pinchers here on both sides.
And I'm going to take a little care here and pick this guy up for you. Easy does it, fellow. They actually reciprocate back and forth almost like a saw. So when he grabs onto his prey, which is predominately insects but he'll also eat a small mouse or anything he can get his mouth on, he saws back and forth, and pulls pieces of it out. He takes all the blood out of it. He sucks it into this body. And it just almost disappears as he's eating it. It takes a long time for him to do it, but it's a very violent-looking act. All these crazy nicknames that the solafugid gets derive from its other characteristics. Camel spiders. Oh, easy. Camel spider they call it because it's often found adhered to a camel's skin because of the furriness of the camel. It can grab on, and it will act almost in a tick-like manner and will bite the underside of the camel. Legends are it can jump six feet high and grab onto the camel. We don't really know that it can do that. But it does find its way underneath the camel's belly. G.I.'s laying in a sleeping bag in the middle of a desert, he certainly has invited himself in, and many a person in the armed forces has a solafugid bite. It's also called the wind scorpion or the sun spider. It's not a spider. It's not a scorpion.
But these names get confused. And why does it do that? Well, I was told by people right here in my store that this scorpion was chasing me through the desert. What it is is it wants to be out of the sun, so it's staying in the person's shadow. And as they walk away, it moves pretty quickly. It moves along in the shadow and gives the illusion that it's chasing you across the desert. So a lot of myths about these animals, not many of them true. Do your homework. For a captive animal, pretty fairly straightforward to keep. Desert environment. All animals need moisture, so it needs a spot where he can get some moisture. It doesn't eat a lot, but you got to feed him once a week or so. But unfortunately, a very short-lived animal. Three to five years would be about a life span for these.
And once you get one that this big, he's already of an undetermined amount of age. None of them come from captive collections currently. They're all wild-caught animals. So therefore, you're getting one that's already old, so you're not going to have the pet for very, very long. Definitely a specialty animal. For anybody who's interested in something extremely bizarre, the camel spider or wind scorpion or solafugid would be a great candidate. For those who are squeamish, I'd stick to frogs.

[@jc_malone8217]

In AZ, these things came into my house. They are very quick. I saw one eating an insect and I could actually hear the crunch.

[@GladDestronger]

thankfully their powerful bites aren't venomous. very painful i've heard though.

[@russvorhees8985]

GladDestronger their bite isnt actually that bad,I've experienced one haha

[@mrrithexthesilent6385]

I never saw one in person but from the videos I watched apparently yhey can't pierce through human skin

[@halo2player3]

if you'd like to see one there is a video by coyote peterson on it

[@sarateubert8252]

I once saw one gnawing on a small lizard once. The way they use their jaws is messed up.

[@gsimon123]

I actually caught one of these in New Mexico and kept it for a few weeks. It literally started trying to saw its way out of the cage and didn't want to eat stuff for the last week I had it. So I decided to return him to the wild. He was by far the coolest invertebrate I ever had and only kept him for a short time. They also have AWESOME burrowing behavior where they shovel dirt with those jaws and then sort of nestle themselves into little holes they make for themself haha! He was INSANELY fast but smaller than this one. Fed him a moth as his first meal and it disappeared in a puff of moth dust haha! When I first spotted him he was flying across the desert! I had to actual keep a quick walking pace to stay with him. I thought he was a scorpion but when I got closer and he quit running all over the place he started throwing his pedipalps up like "whats up???" I was like o_0 What the HELL is this thing??? For the record I researched him and found out what he was PRE-Iraq war so I knew it was BS as soon as the legends started popping up. Good old Rocky... craziest chainsaw killer of the bug world I ever knew!

[@gsimon123]

Daffney Delilah Thanks for the comment! Yeah these guys are awesome. I actually have my first ever scorpion from a pet store and it just gave birth to 14 babies... how can anyone not find these things cool??

[@ScorpionSting89]

+Daffney Delilah i had some bark scorpions a couple years ago in new mexico that i found in the wild a couple of them were gravid females and they had babies and two other i noticed held each others claws and "danced" around the tank it was so cool watching them

[@tsuchinoko01]

gsimon123 awesome!

[@damien1781]

ew ew ew

[@noradosmith]

Iraqnid

[@marksman24444]

lol

[@soulplexis]

Punny.

[@jaologan2590]

Badum tiss!!!!!

[@Fishhunter2014]

How did I not think of that before? That's friggin hilarious.

[@bradruark3559]

John Doe OMG WE NEED TO EDIT A TURBAN AND A BOMB ON IT

[@fakemadereal]

Here in Washington State, we Refer to them as "Nightmare Fuel".

[@bobbaeba]

fakemadereal No no, anyone sane calls them that.

[@slamtown1903]

dont put words in my mouthe. these guysvare cute.

[@jaidenhaynes3386]

fakemadereal yeah

[@awesomeeliam7882]

fakemadereal no,it's cute

[@farbott8137]

STOP POKING ME WITH THOSE METAL STICK THINGS!

[@jennjeffs4893]

we get these from time to time In our house, they are QUICK moving but harmless... i usually just grab it and take it outside

[@zbruhftw8438]

You grabbed it.Its witchcraft.

[@jennjeffs4893]

​@@zbruhftw8438 not witchcraft, I'm just not afraid of them. They can't do much

[@jennjeffs4893]

They don't live 3-5 years... its a year maybe.

[@EdwardTyndall]

i caught one of these in sanderson tx and showed my dad and he screamed like a sissy girl that made my life worth liveing lmfao

[@levortex2202]

Lol

[@heyheyupyours8676]

Edward Tyndall I would to😨

[@EdwardTyndall]

lmao

[@thephenomenalone3381]

Same with my mom I found my escaped tarantula she screamed so hard I went deaf in one ear and she then fell .

[@tarantulaboy1998]

Hay Edward man

[@NoName-rj6qe]

My favorite myth about these guys was that they could run 20 MPH and produce an audible scream while doing so. I also heard that they were part of the "alt right".

[@TheDblRnbw]

What's that?

[@rocknb123]

You mispelled far left

[@NoName-rj6qe]

@@rocknb123 Amen.

[@mystraven4647]

You find these a lot in the Northern-Cape South Africa. We call them Haarskeerders due to the way they bite.

[@jsigmo]

We have them here in central Wyoming. I see them out mostly at night, trotting around, presumably on the prowl for something to eat. They readily eat moths when you offer them. We often see them near buildings with outdoor lights. My guess is that they are attracted to the other bugs that are attracted by the lights, but perhaps they're attracted directly by the lights themselves. They seem more plentiful when you get into less developed areas. They're quite fast, and their jaws are powerful, but they are not venomous. Often, when you feed one a moth, the first thing it does is to use its two pairs of jaws to grasp the moth at the neck, and simply tear its head off. Then it will eat the entire thing, and as mentioned below, you can hear the crunching as they chow down. I've gotten a lot of photos, and some videos of them. If you give them a moth, they'll stop running around while they eat it, and don't seem to even notice that a camera is only inches away from them. Gravid females (females with eggs) will burrow furiously to create a place to have the babies. They're amazingly fast at excavating a decent-sized hole in the ground. You can see the eggs inside of the abdomen of the gravid females. They show through the surface. I had a place in the outer area of my office, right near the doorway that always had a black widow spider web. She didn't cause any trouble, so we never bothered her. One night a solfugid ran into her web. She quickly came out, but when she got close to the struggling solfugid, she retreated back into her nest. The solfugid took only 30 seconds or so to cut his way out of her web and then go on his merry way again. I suspect that had the black widow challenged the solfugid, the solfugid may well have killed and perhaps eaten the black widow, so she made the right choice in retreating. It may well be that the black widows can tell if something trapped in their web is small or weak enough to be good prey, but leave anything that shakes the web too vigorously alone since it might be dangerous to the spider. Although the solfugids seem to be quite common around here, most people have never seen one and are often surprised that we have them in this area. I usually see them only at night, so I suspect people just aren't in the right places at night. And, they do blend in with the usual dirt background, so unless you're looking for them you may not see them.

[@Radazure]

What a gladiator. It looks like it'd never back down against any foe!

[@propanedaddy5577]

I would slay the beast using my mighty shoe.

[@hiding_from_fizzy]

Honestly, I like this video. He gave a lot of correct information about these lil guys. Now, his information on tarantulas...thats a whole different story.

[@Groovyman-je6yb]

I see them all the time during the Summer in the PHX area. Always a relief to know it's not a real scorpion. They are really fast!

[@euugh8877]

Legends say its very dangerous. When he got picked up he was like "nya, let me go hooman >.

[@AAhmou]

The third cutest tarentula I've seen. I want to keep a baby one in a glass cage. :3

[@TheDeathJesters1337]

Looks like i'm getting a frog

[@noelramos4948]

Lol.

[@dizeptikon]

TheDeathJesters My wife is taking me to chuck and cheese's

[@frosttroll3411]

TheDeathJesters I’m late but I’d recommend you get a toad instead, they’re much easier to handle and care for

[@BonnieBunny118]

dizeptikon 😀

[@lawhammergaming]

Here in Colorado I just caught mine last night under my window waving hi at me, he's in an enclosure now but I like him, he loves the grass hoppers here.

[@dddeath4565]

i found one here in texas, and i am now keeping it as a pet. it eats crickets.

[@aviatorwolf5735]

It eats EVERYTHING

[@herculesatan4514]

“You can’t expect a demigod to beat a decapod.” “Nah mate, those aren’t legs.” “Really? Damn.”

[@darkranger116]

See, now this is how you do a "# of facts about something" video. No labored changes in between facts, no over dramatic, long winded pompous circumstance. Just a person talking about a topic they enjoy.

[@puffthemagicdaddy5761]

Not even gonna lie but they're kinda cute.

[@westonbennion5486]

Agree

[@papika-lz5eg]

True

[@p.k.5221]

+King Fedorah Look into his eyes :3

[@Majyxs]

I don't know about that, but I'd say they're very METAL.

[@Hoshimaru57]

Big Papa Pussi Puff the Magic Daddy Given the choice between the beady puppy dog eyes on that thing and the face on your average spider, hell yeah. I'm severely uncomfortable with anything with a different number of eyes than I have.

[@Kopa_Malphas]

Theyre also called "Nope spiders" :)

[@jasonbagshaw5345]

Nice video great to finally see one on here where they're not being forced to fight a scorpion or some shit

[@DementedDuskull]

This guy is real brave. I respect anyone who isn't afraid to pickup a potentially dangerous arachnid.

[@stinkypeanky96]

It's non poisonous . I was camping last night I came across my first camel spider ever and In the wild. I have a Chilean rose hair tarantula so I'm not afraid of spiders so I caught the camel and studied it .

[@DementedDuskull]

by dangerous i mean as in it could hurt you

[@gasattack2906]

+Gabriel Torres venomous they're not venomous, venom is a injected toxin and poison is a eaten toxin

[@gasattack2906]

+Gabriel Torres "Studied it" you most likely killed it

[@gasattack2906]

Jose Hidalgo 2 I didn't say anything about me killing it

[@irishnomad1673]

I use to catch these as a kid 30 years ago in Colorado.

[@bellamydj7295]

liar

[@irishnomad1673]

Lol, yeah...ok

[@aviatorwolf5735]

Oh no

[@tecate5683]

Yea Colorado springs full of these spiders

[@irishnomad1673]

Lol...hell yeah, Colorado Springs...my old stomping ground.

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

We have them in California too. When I used to live in Southern California we had them on our property and would always see young sun spiders in our house every June. Another nick-name they had for them where I lived in Ojai was children of the earth. The biggest one I caught was over 5 inches! EDIT TO ADD: I forgot to share this, but one summer I fell asleep in my bed reading a book and left the light on. I woke up and on the wall near my face was a baby sun spider! I just about pee'd myself. Didn't sleep too well that night! lol

[@lydiafernastrology7296]

Seen them in Chalfant CA, and Shasta Lake CA too!

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

@@lydiafernastrology7296 I live up in the mountains of Napa now, I have yet to see any up here. Which is fine with me! Haha I don't miss those creeps! Are the ones up where you are big or smaller? The biggest I saw up in the Ojai mountains where I used to live was about 5 inches. Scary!

[@lydiafernastrology7296]

@@Acadian.FrenchFry The ones I've seen in Chalfant were pretty small, 1-3 inches usually, but I've seen some bigger ones maybe closer to 5 around here in the Shasta area, like Keswick Dam near Redding! They're not super common around here, though.

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

@@lydiafernastrology7296 That sounds about the same as Ojai. Most were maybe 2 to 3 inches. And also were not very common. It was usually only around June and July that we started to see them. The rest of the year almost never. We lived on 5 acres that butted up near the Los Padres National Forest so we were pretty deep in the woods out there. I never saw them when I lived in the town of Ojai. In fact the first time I saw one was at that cabin home and I thought I had discovered some prehistoric bug. This was before the internet and I had never before even heard or seen one in my life. lol

[@grantcleveland4506]

This is the most straight forward facts ive gotten about this animal

[@genemartinez8350]

I was one of those soldiers in Iraq catching and playing with 'camel spiders'. This is by far the most sedated looking specimen I have ever seen. They are insanely fast, always going going going. Fast and mean. Very bitey little assholes. I would catch scorpions by cutting a water bottle in half and setting it down in front of them letting them walking into it. Once inside you simple turn the bottle right side up and he's trapped. He cannot walk up the sides of the plastic. I learned the hard way that is not the case with the camel spider. The first one I caught was nearly twice the size of the specimen in this video (the area around camp speicher had the largest specimens I've seen between western Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq) I had to run him down with a flashlight at night, I placed the bottle over him and trapped him under it. When I turned it right side up he immediately shot up the side of the bottle and went to tagging the hell out of my hand with his pincer face. It felt amazing. Would not recommend as a pet although mine was an avid eater in captivity, these guys are masters of escape.

[@nokiot9]

Dug up one of those here in az when I was a kid. Scared the hell outta me. They're killing machines. I fed it a bunch of ants and it just ripped them all apart and didn't eat most of them.

[@meltingpotmeme6181]

no sir. camel spiders, sun spiders, solpugid or whatever you wish to call them have been in the u.s. for a while.

[@gregphillips9600]

Millions of years

[@trebot9292266]

I think it's just that normally in the US most people don't spend a lot of time in areas where these are commonly at. I remember they used to only really be out away from the homes when i was growing up, typically in places with less people activity.

[@lichkingvilardo]

Jungle Bob, have you ever observed the Spider Tailed Horned Adder? Their tail has modified scales that appear to look like a Solifugae.

[@joediaz232]

After 6 years in living in New Mexico, I finally get to see one for the first time in my life! One night, one of my cats was playing with something in my doorway.and so it was a Sun Spider!! So cool but weird!! /m/

[@sellanatalia6826]

1:48 the spider is like "o my God! O my God! What are you doing?!!! Let me go! Let me go! Geez..!" LoL

[@Sniperk1TTY]

Thank You, Jungle Bob! I'm doing a research biology project on these creatures and your tips have been very helpful!

[@TheBlackdragon181]

*weird tree walks away* spider: BABY COME BACK! I CANT LIVE WITHOUT YOU!

[@BoujeePurified]

Help lol I live in Barstow and these are all in my house and I keep getting bite 🤦🏽‍♀️ I just figured out what they are called

[@keenawireheart7238]

"I'd stick to frogs." I inatantly remembered a bunch of times people freaked out over some harmless frogs. lol I wonder if some humans are wired to fear frogs because some are poisonous and their ancestors survived thanks to this fear? I know I'm wired to fear spiders and large dogs even if I'm not scared of them anymore, but snakes and frogs have always been cute to me.

[@jconk777]

this is a nope video about a nope

[@Milan_Smidt]

LOL

[@francesmullan5504]

jconk777 Yeah ikr

[@plasmallama5432]

jconk777 even worse, a leggy nope.

[@orangulu9772]

jconk777 nope nope nope

[@christinasmith8610]

Hahaha Sir... doesn’t all good seem to disappear when you are eating it!? Haha we forgive you😂😂🤣 2:00

[@sulaimaanahmad]

and...you forgot, they're relatively harmless. 😊

[@aaronmarks9366]

I've seen small ones of these while out walking/hiking in the SF Bay Area. There definitely are Solifugid species native to North America.

[@TheDemonKing100]

I used to hold these when I was a child. Only had one bite me, felt like a really bad pinch. Definitely has a good amount of bite force, but it wasn't as bad as some other encounters I've had like the velvet ant sting.

[@kaelchips_]

@@pikochicken very painful

[@Boko888]

no idea how I got here but have an upvote for being super informative.

[@flagwaver1969]

Solifugids have been in America for a long time. I used to see them every so often in Northern California.

[@succulentbeans5333]

Thank god i needed this for my school project

[@joshginer2588]

ok quick question i heard somewhere, that they can borrow inside living things. is that true?

[@trebot9292266]

I've seen these in Southern California as far back as 15 years ago.

[@kyrgyzjeff4550]

Apparently a Sepulgid made the news over in AZ., and even the news anchors thought it was like discovering a Chupacabra for some odd reason, completely blowing it out of proportion.

[@roleychiu6024]

excellent summary! well done.

[@konamis0und245]

jungle bob could u give any tips on a Brazilian salmon pink bird eater tarantula? I have 1 but it was my first tarantula and hey don't seem to friendly, so is there anything I should keep in mind?

[@hlalakar4156]

Their jaws remind me of predator. The first time I found one here in Wyoming I had to immediately go to the library to find out what it was (this was before wikipedia or most other information sites on the internet). I fed it a fly. It was really something to watch. It basically unwrapped the thing, ate all the meat, and left behind a small plate of chiton. IDK about the rest of the world but the ones here are fairly small (I've never seen one longer than an inch and a half) and very docile. If handled gently they will not try to bite you. Of course, even if it does they aren't poisonous and the ones around here would have trouble even breaking your skin.

[@moondayblue8948]

We've got our own kind of those here in South Africa. We call 'em red romans. Really cool, and they look just like the one in this video. They are also super fast. I've tried catching one once but I couldn't keep up with it.

[@PhantomHT1320]

just saw my first one tonight. i live in an upstairs apt and have like a short narrow hallway to get down to bottom level and this lil bastard was positioned RIGHT where i had to run UNDER him to get too my bottom gate. ive only lived here in AZ for a lil more than a year and had no idea what the hell it was. Looked like a scorpion with no tail and moved QUICK. If i had a flame thrower i woulda used it.

[@MontclairWrestler112]

See them all the time but my little sister and brother decided they wanna keep this last one we saw hope I can keep it for 3-5 years !

[@Shakiahjprod]

2:27 Spider: LET'S SHOW EM BOIS *Jumps on his face*

[@Bunble_Bee89]

I just acquired one of these from the sink in my kitchen, I live in San Diego county. Its around half an inch long. Pretty cool little guy, it loves baby dubia roaches.

[@gskillet47]

I like this guy. I subscribed.

[@73_de_CJHall]

Thanks for the informative video

[@MantisMan223]

Is it normal for solifugids of that size to be so mellow and slow moving? I've only encountered examples about half that size but they move like lightning, pounce on anything that crosses their path, and never seem to stop.

[@DJImfamuos1408]

they are also native in California in placerville.

[@channelisafunnyword]

Why was the specimen so subdued? What was the white crystals on its mandibles? Was it drugged?

[@ZEEKUPP]

We hsve them in Easter Oregon. They can run incredibly fast.

[@DECKERTHEWRECKER]

the spiders so adorable

[@martharomero8557]

I'm from the Fresno California area and my local pest control guy said they're called mother scorpions is that another nickname?

[@clockworkninja09]

Why am I torturing myself? I see one anywhere near me, I'm setting myself on fire. That'll teach it!

[@daemonCaptrix]

These are native to the American South-West. Different species of solifuge, but the same size and colour. I saw one outside a rest stop when I was little.

[@wefkr]

That was great, thank you.

[@afipantera]

They are in nevada too... I see them every now and then in northern nevada

[@Bigjizay]

Are they in Reno? I've seen a few in Las Vegas.

[@lrn5152]

So... It's it's own species? neither spider nor scorpion?

[@bobafat2082]

Kelton Harris it's an arachnid..

[@mmcrm117]

here in Mexico we call them "mata venados" (deer killers) and everyone thinks that they are venomous, but they are not xD

[@nathangarness1200]

thx for the video really cool to see and research

[@carlosabraham2681]

in México they call them "Mata venados" (deer killer) and almost everyone thinks they are venomous

[@jaclynsexquisitegrooming7736]

WELCOME TO NOPECAST, TODAY WE HAVE A NOPE.

[@octagon7732]

his legs look a little weak, like they kinda bend under him, is this normal?

[@colbymcqueen8885]

found one of these things in my garage. I do live on a military base, so it would make a bit of sense

[@mybackhurts7020]

I always find them in my driveway in California Mojave desert because they burrow under my tires and when I drive off squish

[@Lulu4Him]

What's the bit like? Is it poisonous?

[@gasattack2906]

Omg it's venomous not poisonous fool ( not saying the camel spider is venomous, idiot )

[@sspiderweb]

Chill out, damn. Like, OMG like, like.

[@sspiderweb]

Master Tigress What? You have never heard of Valley Girls? I was making fun of the dude using OMG in his sentence. "Like gag me with a spoon."

[@RaffleReefer10]

These are badass, genetically engineer 3 foot long ones. Ultimate guard animal lol.

[@markjulius2006]

Good video. Thumbs up.

[@lonegoat81]

We have tons out here in SoCal, especially in the region i live, The Mojave desert.

[@lorilamb5995]

These cuties look so much like a potato bug...are they the same with a different name or a totally different genre???

[@milkmarchi2353]

I see these things in my yard and sometimes in my house do you know how I can get rid of them ?

[@davidcoss3350]

A nuke

[@fireemblemistrash75]

Genocide

[@succulentbeans5333]

U should put water and cold areas like -2 C and 40% of them would leave

[@alik.5990]

I am from Turkey and I saw this in my uncles garden. This spider is fast but it didn't attack to me because I didn't attack to it.

[@cheeseeditz-8159]

**camel spider has a lil bit of sand in its mouth** Me:is that cocaine???😕 FBI: MHHMMMMMMMMMMM...🤔

[@mintypvp3547]

Do more of these with different animals :D

[@tonyajordan4092]

lol did you drug the spider so that it did not run all over the place?Just wondering what the white powder is XD

[@JaneDark94]

how to extremely annoy a camel spider xD

[@blaa94]

What is that white powder? I guess it is some kind of sedative.

[@succulentbeans5333]

Nope its cocain LOL

[@Daniel-gb3lm]

2:11 lol he got flipped upside down

[@michellexlin]

jungle bob is back!

[@louislafontaine6068]

Found 2 of these in my yard in Montana.

[@michaelveis4985]

These are so cool.

[@Solifuge938]

Solifuges do not live 3-5 years, though the biology of many species is poorly understood most species are thought to live only up to one year with very few known to reach 2 years. That is one of the main reasons these arachnids do not make good pets but they sure are fascinating.

[@Cydiahacksandtips]

Very amazing more vids love this

[@obliviousmexican8757]

There was one next to my house once here in a small town in Texas

[@hitomekakera]

OMG. His leg is damaged. No wonder he's not running away. They're known to be really fast scorpions.

[@sarateubert8252]

They say that they only chase you to stay in your shadow out of the sun. But then, why do they come charging right for me even at night!? Why do they come aggressively skittering OUT from the shadows TO ME and straight into my nightmares, snapping their predator jaws at me, with their arms raised!? Why, God, Why?!

[@jamesschauer1056]

Good info!

[@deechonada]

So if it isn't a spider or a scorpion what is it

[@MrWolfman456]

we also have them here in South Africa - phalaborwa we call them in afrikaans "Rooi roman"

[@shelbyshannon8744]

Camel spider like would you please leave me the hell alone lol.