From here. If you think arachnids with long legs are just scary please watch this solifugid dig her nest (or try to) like SUCH a goofy little person creature. Look how she shoves dirt with her mouth and then gives it a little pat. Is she even making any progress?!
Fun fact: Camel Spiders aka Sun Spiders aka Solifuges are not true spiders because they lack the ability to produce webs, and their legs are arranged more like scorpions than spiders.
They’ve also been commonly attributed as having incredibly deadly venom, but actually the opposite is true. Their venom is pretty much harmless to humans and they rarely bite anyway. If you do get bit by one, the wound will likely cause you more problems than the venom.
And as a final fun fact, the Frostbite Spiders in Skyrim are heavily inspired by Solifuges.
More than that; they have no venom at all! Just very strong jaws for chomping up tough beetles, scorpions, centipedes, even lizards. They're the tyrannosaurs of arachnids, putting all the points they can into a huge heavy head and bite force!!
If you are tasty foodful centipede it has to be the frighteningst beast, but....they have this face about it:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mayraoyervides/3459624229
Okay this keeps exploding and the most common question is why she appears to have ten legs. The front pair are the palps, which spiders also have, but in spiders the palps are usually shorter than any of the legs! In scorpions, which are also arachnids, the palps are the pincers.
I have a site article that explains every type of arachnid, and they do all kinds of silly things with different palps!
