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 that's 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?:confused:

Did it look like these?
Yahoo! Image Search Results for earwig (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=earwig&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&y=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt&js=1&ni=21&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-4223424938_q-LfqtlehwSgRmd2ilaM/MpQAAAA@@)

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

Did it look like these?
Yahoo! Image Search Results for earwig (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=earwig&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&y=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt&js=1&ni=21&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-4223424938_q-LfqtlehwSgRmd2ilaM/MpQAAAA@@)


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 that's the closest to resembalance. It wasn't the same color or as rounded over but that's the closest thing.

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

Cornell Entomology at Ithaca - Spider Outreach (http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/public/IthacaCampus/ExtOutreach/SpiderOutreach.html)


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

Cornell Entomology at Ithaca - Spider Outreach (http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/public/IthacaCampus/ExtOutreach/SpiderOutreach.html)


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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.

Did it look anything like this?

House Centipede | Iowa Insect Information Notes (http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/housece.html)

Nope, it looked like a roley poley with the pincers of scorpion, not just the pincer but the arm like structure that the pincer is attached to. And I still have no idea what the bug was

Can you hold the bug closer to the computer, so I can see it better?
Guesses include
Whip scorpions:
Image Search Results (http://www.goodsearch.com/SearchImage.aspx?Keywords=whip+scorpions)
Solpugids:
Image Search Results (http://www.goodsearch.com/SearchImage.aspx?Keywords=solpugid)
Centipedes:
Image Search Results (http://www.goodsearch.com/SearchImage.aspx?Keywords=centipedes)

Sounds like a pseudo scorpion. Check out these
Image Search Results (http://www.goodsearch.com/SearchImage.aspx?Keywords=pseudoscorpions+species)

That would be it, the mystery is finally over I can rest easy now lol thanks cats