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<blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 116356" data-attributes="member: 4199"><p>Interesting - </p><p>Like all arthropods, solpugids must periodically shed their exoskeleton in order to grow. Solpugids probably "live fast and die young," with the average lifespan hardly exceeding one year. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Myths</strong></span></p><p>The source of most recent falsehoods about “camel spiders” has come from United States servicemen and women stationed in the Persian Gulf, during both the first Gulf War in 1991 and the present conflict. Camel spiders are abundant, conspicuous arthropods there, but contrary to popular reports the animals do not reach the size of dinner plates (North American solpugids rarely exceed one inch in body length), they don’t literally run screaming across the dunes at 25 mph (they are voiceless, and can only sprint at about 53 centimeters per second for short bursts), and they certainly don’t eat the stomachs of camels or the faces of sleeping soldiers. Camel spiders cannot jump, either. A widely-circulated image of a pair of camel spiders strung together purported to show a single, multi-legged animal; and the forced perspective greatly exaggerated the size of the arachnids.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.desertusa.com/insects/solpugids.html#ixzz4hRmul8eX" target="_blank">http://www.desertusa.com/insects/solpugids.html#ixzz4hRmul8eX</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kormath, post: 116356, member: 4199"] Interesting - Like all arthropods, solpugids must periodically shed their exoskeleton in order to grow. Solpugids probably "live fast and die young," with the average lifespan hardly exceeding one year. [SIZE=4][B]Myths[/B][/SIZE] The source of most recent falsehoods about “camel spiders” has come from United States servicemen and women stationed in the Persian Gulf, during both the first Gulf War in 1991 and the present conflict. Camel spiders are abundant, conspicuous arthropods there, but contrary to popular reports the animals do not reach the size of dinner plates (North American solpugids rarely exceed one inch in body length), they don’t literally run screaming across the dunes at 25 mph (they are voiceless, and can only sprint at about 53 centimeters per second for short bursts), and they certainly don’t eat the stomachs of camels or the faces of sleeping soldiers. Camel spiders cannot jump, either. A widely-circulated image of a pair of camel spiders strung together purported to show a single, multi-legged animal; and the forced perspective greatly exaggerated the size of the arachnids. Read more: [url]http://www.desertusa.com/insects/solpugids.html#ixzz4hRmul8eX[/url] [/QUOTE]
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