harleybitch, this one's for you

[eirias]

Awesome arthropod photo, courtesy of cognative. Not for the unusually squeamish.

(In real life, it's about six inches across.)

Comments

[gieves.livejournal.com]

Snopes has the most irritating anti-linking-to-their-images defense that I've encountered. You can go the whole article here (http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp).

My favorite part, though, was definitely the phrase "Camel spiders can traverse desert sand at speeds up to 25 MPH, making screaming noises as they run."

[harleybitch.livejournal.com]

Whoa! I would have to answer that with these links:

http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae/salticidae/++salticidae/movies/tuberculatus.mov

http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae/salticidae/++salticidae/movies/tarsalis.mov

http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae/salticidae/++salticidae/movies/carolinensis.mov