which bite hurts the most?

[Dark241993]

just sayin thats what i have heard. iv looked at this site before. but havent looked to much into it. why dont you guys take a look. even if it doesnt have good info on it. its got some sweet pictures. even someone handling it like an Avic.

 

[Falk]

Please cut the crap by calling them sunspiders, camelspiders ect, they are not spiders and thats it.
Solifugae is one and only name.

 

[Kaimetsu]

Please cut the crap by calling them sunspiders, camelspiders ect, they are not spiders and thats it.
Solifugae is one and only name.

I know they arnt spiders but as far as i know the common name is camel spider, just like how whipscorpions arnt really scorpions. There are plenty of missleading common names out there but we are stuck with them. If someone says "theres a solifugid in your shoe don't put your foot in it!!!!!!!!!!" most people will be like "huh what??" and put their foot in it anyway. Someone yells camel spider at least they will know it's an animal. Of course that was a silly example and i try to use scientific names when it's convenient but it seems like your denying that the common name is camel spider. I never implied that they were spiders.

just sayin thats what i have heard. iv looked at this site before. but havent looked to much into it. why dont you guys take a look. even if it doesnt have good info on it. its got some sweet pictures. even someone handling it like an Avic.

It's a rumor that people need to stop spreading, i know for certain that solifugids also known by their common name CAMEL SPIDERS which are not actually spiders but are arachnids, are not venomous, cannot numb mammals, and do not feed on large mammals.

 

[TarantulaFanBoy]

Id rather be bitten by the Solifugae Then the Haplopelma Lividum. Just because the Haplopelma has a nasty venom. The Solifugae just has a painful bite. Although i have seen photos of "Solifugae" Bites on the interweb. I believe them to actually be Loxosceles reclusa Just from the extent of tissue damage and Necrosis. Probably somebody Photoshopped a Loxosceles reclusa Bite and put the Solifugae name next to it.

 

[hellraizor]

No that is just a rumor. When I was in the Air Force we were briefed about them before we deployed to the middle east.

true story

 

[robd]

I think I'd probably rather get bit by a camel spider. The allegations of the characteristics of the solifugid never cease to intrigue those who don't know that much about it.

I've had 2 Galeodes granti that I got from Todd Gearheart a few weeks ago that have been doing good so far. I've given them some interesting surrounds though. They both live in 2.5 gal aquariums filled 2/3's of the way with sand and both of their tanks are blacked out, save for the metal screen top.

One is hibernating and one has constantly been out on the surface lately. Not really doing much of anything though. I think the low tOned environment has definitely changed their behavior from what it was in the wild. When I was in Iraq the one I captured was very hyperactive.

 

[DooM_ShrooM]

While the absence of venom in Solifugae was long thought a fact, there is a single published study of one species, Rhagodes nigrocinctus, carried out in India in 1978 by a pair of researchers who did histological preparations of the chelicerae, and found what they believed to be epidermal glands. Extracts from these glands were then injected into lizards, where it induced paralysis in 7 of 10 tests.

 

[Falk]

Yes there is a species from India that is venomous
But i rather get bit from a non venomous Solifugid than an Haplopelma spp