# Why are insects getting bigger?

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**Created:** [May 14, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-are-insects-getting-bigger/29307 "2007-05-14T22:26:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-are-insects-getting-bigger/29307/30 "2007-05-15T11:14:46Z")

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[quote=“newman,post:27,topic:29307"”]

Also, they aren’t as big as they appear here:

look at this uncropped pic (look at the cuff and hand)  
 ![http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/graphics/camelspider_small.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/e/4/e41b1df47adcf3fc120f8d6a15843e953230eef9.jpeg)

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and there is two of them there…either way…they are a big fucking spider…but everyone compares them to dogs…where as I’d compare them to maybe a possum or something

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