> > I am looking to find out if some things I've heard about the camel spider are true or false.
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> > I was told that the camel spider can be as big as a serving plate
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> They are. The legs are as thick as your thumb.
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> > they are very fast and can jump 10 feet
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> True.
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> > and when they bite you it numbs your skin and they begin eating at your flesh.
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> The venom is has anesthetic qualities; you often see children with missing peices of ear or cheek because of these spiders. The spiders inject the venom and begin to eat.
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> > was also told that they get the name camel spider from attaching themselves to camels and eating their flesh.
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> Maybe. I don't know where the name comes from.
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> > I have done research on this and can not find one bit of reliable evidence to back this up.
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> How about eye witness accounts?
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> > As it stands now I am choosing to believe that the story about the camel spider that eats human flesh is a myth. Am I wrong?
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> I think so.
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> Wormwood

Guess what....the worst of it is...true.

There was one account I read where someone woke up to find one of these spiders on his friends face....having lunch.