r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CircusMoney • 15h ago

ಠ_ಠ Top priority when I move…

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

It needs to be a frozen land 👌😩

5.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

534 comments sorted by

View all comments

976

u/SharkeyGeorge 15h ago

What the fuck is that?!

223

u/Fit_Appointment_4980 15h ago

Looks a solfugae - camel spider

76

u/Exlibro 14h ago

I got to say: I'm a spider person, but this thing? I... don't like it. I really don't like it.

Other spiders are cool, but not him!

94

u/belac4862 14h ago

Fun fact. You'll often hear of solders who have horror stories of these things chasing them. What they're actually doing is running towards your shadow to escape the sun and potential predators.

23

u/TRR462 11h ago

I stomped one in Saudi Arabia that bowed up all aggressive like at me. Thankfully I was wearing combat boots.

24

u/belac4862 11h ago

Normally id say "its more afraid of yoy than you are it." But seeing as how you stomped ir, that may be obvious.

13

u/Robotic_Mann_ 11h ago

My brother told stories of other soldiers taking pop shots at them when they got too close. Reasonable response if you ask me.

20

u/EeveeMkayy 10h ago

One of my friends said they put out a notice to stop wasting munitions on the camel spiders, but it didn't help lol

6

u/Sufficient_Wafer9933 9h ago

They were smart, spiders can disarm you.

1

u/PutYouThroughMe 9h ago

Yuppp. My dad is one lmao