Camel spiders arent as bad as they're made out to be, but man they are fugly. Back in '03 we occupied a building, and our females had the 2nd floor.
We guys heard a loud thump, thought someone had dropped a boot.
Then the yelling and running started.
We ran up there and turns out a camel spider had dropped into the middle of the room from the rafters.
Scared the crap out of the females, and once WE saw it, scared the crap out of US... 😮
Galeodes arabs - Arabian camel spider
Camel spiders, aka sun spiders or wind scorpions, belong to a separate order of the Arachnida to the spiders, known as the Solifugae. They possess four pairs of legs and a long pair of pedipalps which they keep aloft in front of them when they run. Although non-venomous they do possess a powerful double set of chelicerae with which they can make short work of locusts, scorpions and small vertebrates. These large invertebrates can move with astonishing speed and run silently across the sand, making them an extremely unnerving animal to meet in the dark. The specimens we were photographing were also quite aggressive, trying to bite gloves and rushing at the sides of the clear plastic boxes in which they were placed.