It's the stuff you'd see in your nightmares, and an Arizona man came face to face with it. Its common name is the camel spider, wind scorpion or sun spider; however, it's not a spider and it's ...

"I didn't know they are native to Arizona," Acosta told KNXV. "I have seen camel spiders, but I heard of them in Iraq." The camel spider is non-venomous, but can grow big enough to eat small ...

They typically die feeding the colony. 3. The Camel Spider (click for photo) Venom-less and typically about six inches long, the camel spider is technically not a spider at all, but a soplugid.

"I didn't know they are native to Arizona, I have seen camel spiders, but I heard of them in Iraq," Thomas Acosta said. He found the creepy creature at his home near Phoenix.