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Spider Hoaxes
"Camel
Spiders"
Have
you seen this picture and read the usual accompanying story about "camel
spiders" or "Fallujah spiders" in Iraq that anesthetize and eat
people alive? This is a hoax. The arachnids in the picture are not spiders,
they are solpugids and they have no venom. They eat roly-poly bugs, crickets,
and scorpions. And they aren't just in Iraq; they are found in deserts.
There are some in the southwest U.S. Also, notice that the picture was
taken to make these arachnids look bigger. Compare them to the partial
hand on the right instead of the leg behind. |
