i was scouting for a fellow sudy on a safety inspec hook up and on my way home while in waipahu a big **** spider starts crawling across my dash from the passenger side. im not scared of your small little spider but this thing was huge. i brought my car to a screaching hault, flew the door open finding my self buckled in, unbuckled and started swatting my self and jumping like a little gurl inthe median of the road a few blocks down from the high school. i found it sitting under my seat and saw it was 3" in diameter. i squashed it and drove home and got into my truck. eeewwwwwww the thing was hairy!!!!!!!

 

any pictures??? was it a cane spider...

 

haha... scared of a big spider are we...?

 

You must've made big A of yourself but, in your shoes, I would've done the same thing.

 

thats funny, did it look anything like this

 

being relatively new to teh island, this interests me, what kind of spiders are here? i was told there are NO indiginous snakes, and any others are rare and bad...but waht about spiders?

 

i had a HUGE cane spider in my office once, it scared the cr@p outta me then when i look at it closer it was sucking on a HUGE B52 roach, being the girl that I am I screamed and cried and called the maintenance department to come get it, it was so huge they were afraid of it, they had to go get a shop-vac to suck it up, but there wasn't enough suction they had to chase it into the shop-vac, the spider was creepy looking but haha for the B52 ( :

 

jesus! how big to these things get???

 

pretty big. I'll try and find some pics.

 

never saw i of those in hawaii..yet!

 

thats a small camel spider from Iraq. we use to pit them against scorpions and bet on them. i'll post more pics later

 

ditto haha

 

i swaer it looked like BROWN RECLUSE but i could be wrong, and yeah the other lane had a red light and was watching me dance and slap myself all over trying to shake what i feared i may have had on me.

as for camel spiders me and my frens did the same thing in iraq, camel spiders arent as scary because they arent even spiders, freakishly big but fun to watch!

"Camel spider" is a common name for solpugids, large non-spider arachnids found in desert regions. Solpugids (possibly excepting one species in India) have no venom, not even an anaesthetic, nor any means of delivering a venom even if they had any, and are strictly predatory on smaller creatures.

A number of soldiers have written me claiming this legend is, nonetheless, true. But not a single one has been able to supply the name, rank and serial number of any victim - or even just a name! It always happened to "a friend," the friend never has a name, and no matter how far down the line you follow the story, that elusive named person is always at least one "friend" away.

 

camel spider ahhh....