The pictures above are solpugid's if you count they have 10 legs and are more closly related to scorpians then spiders. We have those around as well though not in that size. The site below has good info on them.
My one poisonous desert dwellers book has them in as a sub catoagory as the ugliest creature that should be poisonous but isn't!
Down here in exteme Southern AZ, I stop and move the T's across the road during the monsoons. Sun spiders are usually tossed but sometime squashed. My Daughter has a pet scorpion and a vinegaroon (looks like a giant black scorpion) both found in the house. We catch a lot of wild grasshoppers and crickets to feed them. I almost hate to mow during the rainy season because of all the displaced critters but I'm also not fond of the West Nile Virus.
That's all! That does it! I'm outta this thread! I'm gonna have nightmares for the next week...
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