While I was at work yesterday, we had to unload some 2x4's by hand because we crate some of our products. Well I picked one up and put it away and went back to get another one when I noticed something really strange about this bug. It had pinchers like a scorpion. It looked somewhat like a rollie pollie but not the same color. But thats the first time I have ever seen a insect other then a scorpion have pinchers. The pinchers weren't very big but imagine a pair on a rollie pollie and that would be the size. Any way what kind of bug was this?

N0help4u

Did it look like these?
Yahoo! Image Search Results for earwig

smokedetector

I was going to suggest earwigs too...were the 2x4s damp at all?

Christopher618

They were slightly damp but it looked like you stuck a scorpions "arms" and put it on a rollie pollie they moved just like a scorpions just really small. I'm sure it wasn't a rollie pollie but thats the closest to resembalance. It wasn't the same color or as rounded over but thats the closest thing.

WVHiflyer

It may take you a while, but search this site:

Cornell Entomology at Ithaca - Spider Outreach


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Christopher618

That didn't help. I didn't see anything that resembled it. I've looked on numerous sites about and around the species of rolly polly's but to no avail. So I don't know. Maybe it was some kind of new species or something who knows.