What the fuck is this?
Mr. k found it in the pool filter, expired — thankfully. At first I just took pics of it, sure it was one of the desert spiders I’ve read about, but then I noticed — this thing looks wicked. And fucking creepy. It has legs like a spider, body like a grasshopper and head like a scorpion.
I have not gone outside after dark since I saw this thing. no. thank. you.
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July 28, 2009 at 11:51 am
There are no nuclear facilities near you, are there? Because that’s a recipe for trouble.
July 28, 2009 at 12:26 pm
oh, you know, just the old atomic test site.
July 28, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Uh, oh. It seems mankind’s salvation will lay in the hands of beautiful local woman, her wisecracking best friend and the square-jawed he-man they meet.
July 28, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Oh jesus why did I click on one of the thumbnails. GAH! Being confronted with a blown-up version of that was scary.
July 28, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Whatever you do, don’t let it near any guy with a local harvest restaurant. It’ll be on the menu with a cashew-boysenberry vinagrette over a delicate salad of highway divider grass.
July 28, 2009 at 2:56 pm
it ain’t a spider, K. doesn’t it only have 6 legs?
July 28, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I don’t know WHAT the fuck it is.
July 28, 2009 at 6:17 pm
It’s got little pincers! It’s like some kind of mini-scorpion or something. I am going to go find out!
July 28, 2009 at 6:25 pm
But he has no tail, so I’m stumped. And Jesus, he’s hairy!!!
July 28, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I FOUND IT!
It’s something called a sun spider, which is related to the scorpion.
http://images.google.com/images?q=sun%20spider&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
July 28, 2009 at 7:30 pm
thank you! I feel better knowing it won’t chew my toes off.
July 28, 2009 at 6:31 pm
THEY CAN EAT LIZARDS!
July 28, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Clearly, a man invented a teleportation device, and as he was testing it out, a spider climbed into the machine with him. Somewhere out there, there is a guy with a spider head tapping once for yes and twice for no.
July 28, 2009 at 9:05 pm
HOLY.FREAKIN.HELL! I’m not scared of bugs, but that thing looks scary. Quick – where’s my can of oven cleaner!!!
July 29, 2009 at 12:46 am
Ew. Dude. Come on. Somewhere in the world, someone WAS EATING. Blargh.
(I blame my crazy arachnophobic mother. She made me this way.)
July 29, 2009 at 5:52 am
*faints*
July 29, 2009 at 8:07 am
Guh, I see Trixie’s already found it, but it reminds me of the water scorpion I faced in the pool at the house where I lived in Australia. Apparently water scorpions don’t actually sting or bite you, but that didn’t stop me from running into the street and finding refuge in the corner shop while wearing just my bikini because the good-for-nothing bum I was living it had scooped it out of the pool (thank you Jason) but then proceeded to chase me with it.
July 29, 2009 at 10:06 am
ASSHOLE.
I hope you got him back by peeing in his beer.
July 29, 2009 at 10:23 am
i sent out an SOS to my friend’s entomologist sister: she confirms that it’s a solifugid. sun spider.