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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. --Some of the camel spiders are being spotted in Colorado Springs, Denver's KMGH-TV reported. Some think the spiders may be coming home in the gear of soldiers as they return to Fort Carson.

Tracy School has found three of the spiders in her home in Fountain. But the ones she found were about the size of a quarter, not a man's leg.Experts say these spiders have been in Colorado all along."We have them locally; they are an arid terrain spider," said Louise Steer from the May Natural History Museum. "They'll eat every bug in your house; they're the good guy," Steer says.They can grow up to 2 inches in size in the United States, but are much smaller in Colorado.Camel spiders are also called double jawed spiders, sun spiders, sun scorpions or wind spiders and are not really spiders at all. They are solifugids, large non-spider arachnids commonly found in arid regions. They don't have venom and eat other insects, not camels.The original photo of the camel spiders began circulating on the internet around April 1, 2004. The University of Washington's Burke Museum investigated the photo and also offered an explanation of the spiders and the original e-mail.

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