What is it doing to the ants?

weirdly, “ant massacres” are not uncommon with this species. short answer is, even experts are unsure. if you look closely, it isn’t eating the ants, only breaking their bodies like Bane on Batman.

Killing them by mutilating them or tearing them apart. This is the equivalent of what hornets do to bees. Just search hornets killing bees to see similar thing.

War…War never changes.

Maybe they are like humans and just enjoy getting rid of all competition.

Eating them alive.

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Btw, those ants are huge Afghani ants. I’ve seen them run off with a beef patty MRE.

I see Steve1989 has new couriers.

My brain is confused. Scale makes it look like its a brick sized ant wtf.

they want the beef

Snag you when your sleepin comrade.

I used to see these a lot in South Africa. I don't know what the other groups call them, but Sotho languages seem to call them Tsa-Tsa pronounced "Cha-cha".

Pls I'm also south african and have never seen these. Where are they so I can continue to never see them?

Apparently they come in different colors too? Prior to this I've never seen a black one in video

Arachnids have a form of hydraulics in their legs.

We called them Red Romans when I was in the army north of Pretoria. They were quite plentiful there.

Very interesting, thx for sharing!

[More info] Smithsonian Magazine - Why do Camel Spiders attack ants?…

“Many Solifugae stridulate with their chelicerae, producing a rattling noise.”

Another fun thing I found on a different website

Paula Cushing, specializes in solafugids, can’t answer any questions.

There's a bunch of videos of a solifugae camping in front of ant nest openings and massacring anything that comes out, but there's also a

Territorial pheromones maybe

You want ants? Cos that’s how you get ants!

That seems to be how you get rid of ants

Not a spider or a scorpion but somehow more horrifying than either...

I know. Aren't they cool?

I thought those ants were its babies at first.

Same! Thought it was super cute. Until it wasn’t.

I was thinking they were it’s posse or something, waiting around for it to do whatever it was doing. Standing guard. Idk haha

I was watching Hostel 2 on a PSP in Marjah one night while laying all snug in my jungle bag. I thought I felt something moving and turned the PSP down and one of these fuckers was sitting on my chest. I didn’t sleep for 2 days.

🫠

Upvote for PSP. I still use mine almost daily! So many great games.

Grew up in New Mexico and one of my first jobs was located at a building kind of out in the desert, so we often had bugs get inside. One time I felt my leg itch and reached down to scratch it but felt nothing. A few minutes later, it happened again, and I moved and out of my pant leg fell a fucking sun spider. I'm not usually squeamish about bugs (minus roaches) but I absolutely lost it and screamed and ran out of the little room I was in. My coworkers all rushed over to see what happened (two other teenage girls and two grown women) and when I told them three of them freaked out and the other one went in and smashed it. It took a while to go down. I feel bad that she killed it, but also my general rule for bugs is don't touch me and you can go about your business, but if you do touch me we (might) have a problem.

I’ll take “no fucking thank you” for 500 please

I would have absolutely pissed myself in terror.

When ants are flailing around like that are they actually in pain or are they like little robots still trying to carry out their last instruction with broken parts?

There is pain, and they are perceiving it in some fashion and responding in analogous ways. Is it torturous? It sure looks unpleasant, i assume it would have to be unpleasant to induce panic.

I’d like to say the latter but I’m sure it could be a combination of both, too.

I saw a light brown one of these while camping once. I had no idea what it was, put a pic on inaturalist, and found out about this huge group of animals I never knew existed. I like bugs / spiders so I thought it was cool, but definitely creepy for those who don’t, looks like a weird hybrid creature.

Kingdom: Xenomorph Phylum: Not a scorpion Class: Not a spider Species: fucking nope

Scientific Name: Eldritch Horror

I saw a wind scorpion much lighter in color in the CO foothills. They are super interesting creatures. I gave it a beetle and it just chomped through it seemingly without regard to the beetles exoskeleton. I would not want to get bitten by one of these things.

Atleast you gave it a peice offering so it wont attack you for the next hour

it seems you’ve made it an offering… it will not forget you, and, it will eventually return for more…

That's cool, never seen a black one before.

Is it a true camel?

Had to scroll way too long for this.

Every veteran who did a tour in the Middle East is familiar with these fuckers

I’ve never seen a black one before crazy

I was at a pet store that had one of these in a plastic container with really really small air holes punched along the side. That thing was relentlessly attacking one and was making headway chewing its was out.

They are, however, true nightmares

Just pinch them in the middle he says, that fucks the ants right up

So is the thing straight plucking ants out of their nest and just killing them just because? That’s kind of metal

When the tank is a fuckin taaaank

Like an ultralisk on zerglings

So...are they related to camels?

Well, when a camel and a spider live each other very much...

Those are some huge ants

Did a tour in Afghanistan. Firefights and mortars are fear, but in s controlled way. Expected, and you can react.

I think he's mean! :(

Have you met animals? They’re all ruthless.

My body itches after watching this

I find this guy strangely comforting, he’d break all the ants that tried to tickle me

What the solifuge doin?

Like the giant bug from starship troopers

Fuck those things! I was more afraid of them than any mortar attacks. Bugs don't bother me but they are prehistoric monsters!

nope

"Thousands of your kind have fallen before me"

Let’s just call it a NOPE

That's the Kalphite queen, time to work on my kc.

Thanks. Gross.

I watched this twice, and I don't know why nor how.

We would catch these and pit them against scorpions back in Iraq.

Looks like one of those big bugs that shoot plasma death in starship troopers.

Absolutely murdering the SHIT out of those ants...

Just when you thought it was safe to start having a face again...

Australian reporting in: where is the WTF in this video?

Logging off

Ow man why you gotta hurt the poor ants :(

I’m more surprised that that isn’t in Australia

Not poisonous enough.

Fuckers follow you. They like shade, and they try to get in your shadow. If you move, they move with you, and they can move fucking faster then alot of people can easily run. Always have to check any place that is dark during the day, because that's where they hang out.

Camel spiders are my absolute nightmare. I was more afraid of them before going to Afghanistan than of the Taliban.

Maybe ants killed his father?

It's in the arachnida family but its not a spider huh?

Almost stepped on one barefoot once, after I stepped back to see what the hell it was it started to chase after me. Never been so scared of a bug in my life.

Some people say they aren't chasing people, but their shadows, to get away from the sun.

It’s not a scorpion, it’s not a spider. Soo… It’s a camel?

This is fucking metal hot damn

"I am out of here." the smart one.

Worst thing about Iraq. I hate them.

They live in the US, too, you know.

WTF OP now I can't sleep.

Mind putting a nsfw disclaimer next time?

I caught one of these in my home in Texas one time. Came on here, found out what it was, found out it eats other bugs like ants like no tomorrow, and set that hero back into the wild to wage the good war.

I just killed one this morning. Those things are Creepsville.

Idc what it is, would still use gasoline and a lighter on it

Who gives a crap? If it's ANY kind of scorpion\spider hybrid, kill it with fire!

I don't think I've seen a camel spider beat a centipede in the ammo-can arena battles. Something like 0-3.

Well, centipedes are fairly venomous, whereas Solifugids have only their chelceræ.

Ok so are they camels then?

What the solifuge doin?

Let's see ant-man deal with this muhahaha

Nor true camels

Burn the beach down.

Uhhhh what?

But are they camels?

That’s a god damned raid boss!

I once went into my bathroom to find a wind scorpion like this (but the smaller brown ones we have in SW USA), a bark scorpion, and a wolf spider. All three died facing one another. In my head canon, they all died in a Tarantino style free for all.

Orson, why are you smashing those beetles? Cuh cuh cuh

I need one of those to get rid of the ants in my orchard

The "E.V.O.: The Search for Eden" remake is looking great.

They hide in pallets of water, waiting to abush unsuspecting northerners. Great big nasty surprises.

Solifuge, from the Latin "Oh FUCK no!"

Just true horror.

1v1 me bro

Bruh they come in black?

Whatever you call them, they're cold-blooded landlords

New starship troopers where the bugs get third partied

Remember when they ate live camel spiders on Fear Factor?

Tell it I hate it.

It's an arachnid, just like ticks and scorpions. So it's a spider but not a spider spider.

Going for the larva and the pupa probably. Gotta get through the tough Bois before you get to the meat.

Thanks! Something else to plague my dreams ❤️

As far as i know, camel spiders are not aggresive as they look but sadly they are prejudiced creatures cuz their appearance

I feel like i wanna chew his butt

Where does this thing live so I know if I’m safe or not?

The Nope, also known as the No Nope, Nopity Nope, and Hell Naw. They are an order of animals in the class Nothankyou. Despite the common names, they are neither true Nahhhs nor Nofuckingways.

They are evil monsters, the likes of which should only be kept on reserve for Satan himself to push into your nightmares. Waking up in Afghanistan after a ten hour fire mission, and getting the feeling of having some giant insect crawling on you, and looking to see one of these was enough to make the hardest soldier throw every piece of kit he had, in a sad attempt to kill the rat bastard.