[meteorite-list] Creepy crawlies!

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:45:08 -0500
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW_d-7XNofrfwaxx4XVbwRyYF+UQ9JYrqq826G_u3k-myQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Those camel spiders are creepy. They give me the heebie jeebies and
I'm not even particularly scared of spiders or insects.

Are they all over the deserts, or just some regions? What about
Morocco/Algeria? Are the famous NWA strewnfields crawling with these
ugly buggers?

Best regards,

MikeG

PS - I haven't been stung by a tarantula wasp or scorpion, but the
common sting ray hurts like a red hot nail being driven into your
foot. I got nailed by one of those a couple of summers ago, and I
won't soon forget the experience.



On 1/11/13, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
> we often have those tarantula wasps in our garden drinking water and digging
> holes.
> Ive been hit by three bark scorpions here, burns like fire.
>
> Michael Farmer
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been bitten (more like chewed on) by Wind Scorpion on my large toe
>> when I feel asleep on my back porch. Left a distinctive scar that only a
>> creature with two independent sets of jaws can deliver. Surprisingly, it
>> wasn't as painful as being stung by bark scorpion which feels like
>> somebody is burning you with a hot coal for hours. They are afraid of
>> nothing and will attack anything that moves. I had one chasing me around
>> my back patio. It moved so quickly that I could not tell what it was
>> until I trapped it.
>>
>>
>> You think Sun Spiders and Wind Scorpions are bad. On a one to ten scale, a
>> sting from a Tarantula Hawk rates a ten as far as pain goes while a bee
>> sting only rares a one or two and a scorpion sting rates a three or four.
>> I can only imagine one of these things flying through the air carrying a
>> giant tarantula spider payload. If you startle it while it is carrying
>> the alive spider back to its nest, it is liable to drop it on you in mid
>> flight.
>>
>> http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2010/07/16/tarantula-hawks-deliver-the-big-sting/
>> I have only seen two of these. One landed on my sandal while I was
>> wearing it and the other I smashed onto the the side of my head when it
>> buzzed me under a streetlamp. What a mess! I identified it through the
>> giant red wings that I combed out of my hair. Thankfully I was not stung
>> by either one. A sting from one of these will make the strongest man curl
>> up in the fetal position and cry "mama".
>>
>> Be Careful,
>>
>> Adam
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