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Comments & ID Thoughts
I don't know anything about it.
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- Submitted: Jul 30, 2018
- Photographed: Jul 30, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Prescott, Arizona, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 27575
This spider–if that’s what it is (I’m going by number of legs)–was crawling across my bedroom floor. It is the second of its kind in the last 2 weeks. Or the same one, because even though I’m arachnophobic, I catch them and put them back outside. I think the first one was bigger, though.
It is not a spider but a solifugae, also known as camel spider. The fact that it has 8 legs tells you it is an arachnid, but this is an order of arachnids different from spiders. Well done by catching and releasing them outside.
MarcD6: Thank you for the info. I can now research this critter. Thanks also for praise for my releasing them. Even though they send chills down my spine, that is no reason they should die!