The first pair of legs are adapted for sensory purposes to support the pedipalps. The camel spiders utilize the suctorial organ to climb smooth surfaces and to grasp their prey. On the tip of the pedipalps, there is a suctorial organ. The long pedipalp feelers are used to detect prey, water, and perhaps potential mating partners. But if you take a closer look, you should notice they rarely touch the ground.
The pedipalps of camel spiders are modified into a pair of long feelers that resemble legs. They might even consume carcasses of dead animals.Īt a glance, camel spiders seem to have 5 pairs of legs, but they actually have only 4 pairs of legs. In nature, their prey includes various beetles, bugs, moths etc. They use their strong jaws to tear their prey apart. Most of the species are nocturnal where they hide in burrows during the day and are active at night.Ĭamel spiders have relatively big jaws which are called the chelicerae.
All those are not true.Ĭamel spiders can be found mainly in tropical and subtropical deserts. Things like they jump onto a camel and cut the camel stomach open to feed on the organs they chase after humans they can outrun the Olympic sprint champions they eat humans while we are sleeping they are venomous etc. There are a lot of myths surrounding the camel spiders. Photo by Ken-ichi Ueda / CC BY-NC 2.0Ĭamel spiders, also go by the alias sun spider, wind scorpion or solifuges, is a group of arachnids under the order Solifugae.
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