Comments on: Camel Spider

By: Tony Corona

Tony Corona — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:44:25 +0000

I caught one about 2 inches long in Glamis CA over the weekend. Just went down there to ride and watch the Sand Rails race, and one morning I came out side of the trailer and saw a small white spider digging like Hell! And I just threw a cup over it. When I looked closer I realized that I had caught a freakin Camel Spider!! So I i took it home with me and now its living in my 10 gallon terrarium filled with Glamis sand. So far I’m just feeding it small crickets, hopefully it lives and grows to its maximum length!

By: Jaminka

Jaminka — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:36:07 +0000

that is soooo freakyy. how can a spider possibly get that big?

By: jamie

jamie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:09:20 +0000

I live in Australia, i have never seen one of these ever and ony found out they existed because a freind set a status on facebook that they were never going near the desert because of these, so i studied them and found here.

this is a useful site, i NEVER want to meet one, and if i had one it would be living in a fortified tank, with ta least 6″ glass and a hole too small for it to get out of for feeding it… i hate spiders, lol

By: Vlad

Vlad — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:52:05 +0000

camel spiders are in the US and are in Colorado but don’t be scared to death of them they are not venomous

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:03:42 +0000

Hi Alison,

I, too, living in apartment in Denver, CO. We have not seen any camel spiders in our apartment OR in the area. I don’t think you have any thing to worry about. As far as other spiders we haven’t seen any of those either, but it’s not really something you can 100 percent avoid.

By: alison

alison — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:33:22 +0000

i live in an apartment in Denver, CO. i just want to know am i going to find them in here? i have and extreme case of arachnophobia, it took me two hours to calm down enough to even look at a picture of the stupid things. i just want to know if i will be finding them in my place so i know if i should start packing.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:26:13 +0000

that is one awesome spider

By: Samus Aran

Samus Aran — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:52:46 +0000

I had a nightmare about camel spiders last night so i checked out this website. now i kinda want one.
they’re still kinda freaky because of how big they are though…

By: JV

JV — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:44:47 +0000

Those spiders are fast! I got bit in by one in las vegas after riding a 4 wheeler around the dessert felt like a i got slammed with a hammer by a carpenter with 2 nails.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:59:47 +0000

Yeah camel spiders, Im in Iraq now and I thought I was going to be scared of them, nah we catch them and kill them all the time. they do follow you during the day. what makes them look so big is their legs. the body is small.