What the **** is it??

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Kepler


And now I will have to spend the rest of my life hunting you down to kill you.

I SO did not need to read that. I don't think I'll ever f*ing sleep again...

Relax, its an urban legend as Kass pointed out.
So you can all sleep peacefully.

[Aeson]

Maestro,

I hadn't seen the picture you posted until now, just looked at the link the first time. The picture looks a lot like it, the drawing in the link doesn't so much. The description is right on though. I guess it is a type of sun spider, nice diagnosis.

The only difference from the one in the picture is that this one has a more narrow body, and the pincers are vertically aligned instead of horizontal, which makes it look like a bird's beak. If my internet connection wasn't so slow I would have saw that before embarrasing myself by displaying my lack of graphic editing skills....

[Aeson]

So is a sun spider (solpugids) actually a spider? Or is it a scorpion?

[Flandrien]

The university of Antwerp in Belgium has a good spider site.

Look here .

[Flandrien]

By the way, if you really want to avoid eating bugs, keep your mouth shut when riding your bike close to open water.