Spiders, snakes and other Creepy Crawlies??

songogga
By songogga

hi Everyone,

Being petrified of spiders and such like. I was wondering if you could tell me what kind of slightering slights and creepy crawlies are in Qatar. Especially Doha area!
Thanks
Songogga

By britexpat• 20 Nov 2008 14:46
britexpat

Spider , I can put up with.. Its those American Rattlers that give me the heebees..

By songogga• 20 Nov 2008 14:41
songogga

we like camping and are hoping to go camping in the desert...would this be advisable with the scorpions etc?

Gecko's and lizards we can handle, in fact we have always wanted one inour house! But anything with more than 4 legs....YUgHH!

By Cnidaria• 20 Nov 2008 11:35
Rating: 5/5
Cnidaria

In doha the sighting of anything other than geckos is rare but will increase as urbanisation continues and the reptiles become familar with the new habitat. There are several excellent books on snakes of Arabia, however, you are only likelty to see them if your adventurous and in the desert. A few venture into grassy areas but they are generally the harmless ones. Scorpians are poorly research locally and here generally hide by day and are quite small so are hard to see. Using a UV light at night is a good way to find them as they are flourescent!! pretty cool. Again more liklely to see them in rural areas or on the beach.

On spiders your likely to find a few harmeless fella around the house, but dont be to hasty to get risd of them as they keep the flying insects in check, same as gecko. In the desert the camel spider is a mean bugger if you get bitten but then you have to be pretty thick as their "cave" and web is pretty obvious.

By anonymous• 20 Nov 2008 08:39
Rating: 4/5
anonymous

I love spiders, snakes and ants, specially when they harass the shit out britexpat...

By britexpat• 20 Nov 2008 08:16
britexpat

I don't like spiders and snakes

And that ain't what it takes to love me

You fool, you fool

I don't like spiders and snakes

And that ain't what it takes to love me

Like I wanna be loved by you

By anonymous• 20 Nov 2008 07:54
anonymous

Very true Flano i had one lttle bastard follow my wife out and i had to politely tell him to get F@#&Ked b4 he got the message ...........

Without imagination their is nothing!

By Absolutejaguar• 20 Nov 2008 07:52
Rating: 4/5
Absolutejaguar

I have geckos in the house occasionally but they are pretty cute.

No roaches or ants especially if you throw food away properly, clean up spilt drinks and all the usual hygenie stuff.

There isn't enough standing water for there to be too many mosquitos either.

By r7• 20 Nov 2008 07:27
Rating: 4/5
r7

I totally agree with u , no creepier place in town infested like Qube !!!

The Roaches n Lizards are a welcome after tht place :P

By Mandilulur• 20 Nov 2008 06:32
Mandilulur

No worries, habibi, an occasional gecko and a few ants.

Mandi

By anonymous• 20 Nov 2008 05:44
anonymous

Big huge cockroaches. Ew.

By flanostu• 20 Nov 2008 03:49
flanostu

Go to Qube, heaps of creepy crawlies there.

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