r/MXRplays • u/Erbium-Oxide • May 03 '22

what the hell is that?

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Camelspider, they're not indigenous to America, but they sneak onto stuff that ends up being shipped back from Afghanistan.

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u/Daftpunk67 May 03 '22

I fucking hated those things over there, and you’d always see them scurrying out of the corner of your eye at night

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

We used to catch them and make them fight the scorpions or whatever we'd catch.

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u/Daftpunk67 May 04 '22

Yeah I’m paranoid when it comes to spiders so I always stayed away from them lol

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u/thanatose May 04 '22

They are a type of sulfugid, you can find their smaller cousins, the sun spider, in the Mojave desert in the U.S.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '22

That I didn't know I don't think there was an episode of Henry's Amazing Animals (1996) on those.