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    Jul 22, 2008, 02:50 PM
    Weird looking bugs?
    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:
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    Jul 22, 2008, 06:32 PM
    Did it look like these?
    Yahoo! Image Search Results for earwig
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    Jul 22, 2008, 06:41 PM
    I was going to suggest earwigs too... were the 2x4s damp at all?
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    Jul 22, 2008, 08:40 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by N0help4u
    Did it look like these?
    Yahoo! Image Search Results for earwig

    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.
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    Jul 22, 2008, 11:31 PM
    It may take you a while, but search this site:

    Cornell Entomology at Ithaca - Spider Outreach


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    Jul 23, 2008, 03:14 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by WVHiflyer
    It may take you a while, but search this site:

    Cornell Entomology at Ithaca - Spider Outreach


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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.
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    Apr 1, 2009, 02:30 AM
    Did it look anything like this?

    House Centipede | Iowa Insect Information Notes
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    Apr 1, 2009, 09:06 AM
    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
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    Apr 1, 2009, 11:25 AM
    Can you hold the bug closer to the computer, so I can see it better?
    Guesses include
    Whip scorpions:
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    #10

    Apr 1, 2009, 05:02 PM
    Sounds like a pseudo scorpion. Check out these
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    Apr 1, 2009, 09:05 PM

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