Spider identification

[CodeMercenary]

Hello. Can anyone identify the spider in this video? It seems to be some kind of hunter spider--it's very agile and quite vicious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxRmVqNEJPY

 

[Pulk]

that's a

solifugid
solpugid
solifuge
sun spider
camel spider
windscorpion

...all the same thing

they're arachnids, but not spiders

 

[ahas]

I think that' s a Camel Spider.

 

[Pulk]

I would agree with that. :clap:

 

[Mack&Cass]

pretty vicious, it had no problem being dumped into the container, no hesitation just starts chopping
Definitly a solifugid

 

[Cocoa-Jin]

My God! at first i was upset and felt sorry for the spider/arachnid thing Then I realized it wasnt suffering, it was kicking ass!!!

I was then left in total awe and astonishment over how effective and brutal that thing was as it dispatched what some consider a super-organism(well atleast when they are in the 100s of thousands).

Then i was left baffled as it continued to kick the poor ants while they were down, I mean it was going bezerk like it was trying to re-kill them:?

wow, just wow! i didnt think anything could survive an attack by ants that combined almost equalled the animal they were attacking...wow!

 

[fartkowski]

Yeh I was thinking the same thing "poor spider"
I like how it sorta balled up all the ants together.
very cool

 

[_ziggy_]

yea i actually had one of those chase me down while i was in iraq.....mean little things

 

[Malhavoc's]

Most of the ants are in fight or flight response from being stressed out, their first reaction is to flee, which most of them did, several of them even flee from the solifugid upon realizing its existance. Ants typicaly oncei n the fight mode will bite and never let go swarming the creature, I didnt see any response in these ants. they were deffiantly prepanic'd

the solifugid howevers first reaction is to destroy the enemy a built in response to those ants most likely to avoid being "swarmed" (after all a dead ant, cant emit pheromones to summon other ants or lead them back) and it too was more ocupied in looking for escape then actualy eating the ants.