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Well, my uncle and I killed a nest of killer hornets in Massachusetts, and that was pretty intense. Compared to what I've seen online of camel spiders, that's like teletubbies compared to SAW. So, what is the scariest bug you guys have ever seen?

When i lived in Missouri, a tree in our front yard was infested with wood roaches. They are by far the foulest insect ive ever encountered. Each one is about an inch to an inch-and-ahalf long, they fly, and are attracted to light and body heat. there wasnt a force on earth that could make me go out on to the front porch at night.

I was going to help my step-dad run new wiring and put new siding on his garage...until we discovered it became infested with Brown Recluse spiders over the fall/winter/early spring...one at a time they're not that bad, but when you lift a box and find five or six running around, you will gak bricks. I even saw one that I swear was the size of a half-dollar

We eventually finished our Exterminatus campaign of the foul arachnids, but it was time consuming.

Brown recluse spiders... don't believe they are scarey? look up what happens when they bite you.

Camel spiders
http://www.camelspiders.net/
After a bite, 9 days
EXTREEMLY GRAFIC
http://www.google.com/m/search?site=images&source=mog&hl=en&gl=us&client=safari&q=9%20days%20after%20camel%20spider%20bite&sa=N#i=0

Japanese Giant Hornet.

Got a couple of ones that still make me shiver, both when i lived out in the states many years ago. The first was in Colorado I think, at some national park's western centre and they had an old wooden ahem...outhouse and being ten a full of cola decided to give it a go anyway i opened the door to find a toilet full of black widows, well discretion may have slightly been the better part of valour as i ran screaming in terror.

The second also in the states down in the Everglades also at a national park, walking along raised paths looking for gators and stuff. Anyway we walked through a narrower section with trees right up to the path and was leaning with my back against the railing waiting for the parents, turned to my right and my face was literally 4-5 inches from the biggest spider i've ever seen in the middle of its huge web, (like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/rrusty/4063966289/ ) i didn't scream this time just backed of very slowly and then ran very fast back to mum, then to cap it all at the visitors I nearly stepped on a pygmy rattler ( http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/snakes/sismil.htm ) in the middle of the path, i've had better days. I'm still amazed i didn't get PTSD. Still love the states though.

Cheesecat wrote:Japanese Giant Hornet.

Cue the BUM-BUM-BUUUUUUUM dramatic monster music. These things are frigging monsters.

In real life, a camel spider, on the internet, once again a camel spider.

Them things chase you if you run too.

btemple0 wrote:In real life, a camel spider, on the internet, once again a camel spider.

Them things chase you if you run too.

Do they screech, too? That's what I heard.

killykavekommando wrote:

btemple0 wrote:In real life, a camel spider, on the internet, once again a camel spider.

Them things chase you if you run too.

Do they screech, too? That's what I heard.

They are quite possibly the only thing that can effectively stop MEQ.

Funnel Web Spider, Wolf Spider, Red Backs, and Killer Ants.

How about the xenomorph from aliens? That's scary enough, right?

It was a spider, i don't know what type and i don't want to know.

I do know it doesn't make webs and it can climb rather smooth walls onto the ceiling.
It was HUGE unbelievably huge for what we have in Canada.
When i first saw it in the kitchen ceiling i was calling everyone's cell and asking how long before they can get home.
Failing that i stack together vacuum cleaner extensions and pray it wouldn't run when i try to vac it, or it wouldn't fall on me when it was been sucked in.

The immediate horror as i was pointing the vac near the spider i realized its body was the same size as the vac extension tube.
Well some how it still gets sucked in so phew....

LunaHound wrote:It was a spider, i don't know what type and i don't want to know.

I do know it doesn't make webs and it can climb rather smooth walls onto the ceiling.
It was HUGE unbelievably huge for what we have in Canada.
When i first saw it in the kitchen ceiling i was calling everyone's cell and asking how long before they can get home.
Failing that i stack together vacuum cleaner extensions and pray it wouldn't run when i try to vac it, or it wouldn't fall on me when it was been sucked in.

The immediate horror as i was pointing the vac near the spider i realized its body was the same size as the vac extension tube.
Well some how it still gets sucked in so phew....

KILL MAIM VACUUM, KILL MAIM VACUUM, KILL MAIM VACUUM!

After that, i was thinking ( yes this is what Alien 4's ending was like )

Marbled Orb Weaver. I found one sitting on its web an inch from my face while hiking once.


Edit: Image removed due to copyright holder request. --yakface



And as of 2 seconds ago I just found one outside my window! Creepy!

Well.... **** im out of this thread....

Hurk The camel spider.... Damn cringey, I'm never going outside again...

im not really scared of spiders anymore, but the assassin spider is still pretty freaky. google it up.

That and another bug i think is called the scorpion wasp - ill try to add a link if i can find it again.

rubiksnoob wrote:Marbled Orb Weaver. I found one sitting on its web an inch from my face while hiking once.



And as of 2 seconds ago I just found one outside my window! Creepy!

Thanks, I freakin hate spiders. I appreciate their inscet munching ways, but, I have known women to laugh at my fear.

Camel Spiders have been my arch nemisis. They have conciously decided its much more fun to torment individuals than to directly take over the world.

I'm not really scared of any spiders, usually snakes are my weakness, but if this thing was in my backyard I would never venture out there again!

I was camping once and woke up to find this thing's pincer's near my nose...I promptly gakked a load of bricks and turned the tent upside down with how I jumped.

The Assassin Spider



Educate yourself...'Cause knowing is half the battle! - http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/academy_research/assassin_spiders.php

killykavekommando wrote:

btemple0 wrote:In real life, a camel spider, on the internet, once again a camel spider.

Them things chase you if you run too.

Do they screech, too? That's what I heard.

They do screetch and it's fething terrifying. My buddy was so startled he shot at one, which proceeded to chase him down the road.
Seriously, I do not. like. Arachnids.

My former next door neighbour used to have a Goliath Spider. Fething massive. 28cm across legspan. I think it eats live cows. One time it got loose, and sat under my dad's chair for an hour, while we were having dinner.

Whip Scorpions.

Saw one on a David Attenborough nature programme. Not particularly deadly to humans but looks like something out of a sci fi movie, or, my deadliest nightmares. I generally like Scorpions, but this thing gives me the heebie jeebies.

http://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/tail-less-whip-scorpion.html

Aww you can keep them as pets..................

This thread makes me want a flamethrower...

Or what else? Starts with a C and ends in RASUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT!!!

*COUGHTHEYSUCKCOUGH*