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Help Identify this Spider/Insect

ergophobe

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I found this insect in Georgia that at first resembled what I knew of the brown widow spider. I live a few hundred meters from a park so I see a lot of creatures closeby :smile: I've seen this one before several times so I'm guessing it's pretty common

When I got closer - I realized the front two legs were actually antenna (all black) so it did not have 8 legs or the hourglass marking on the abdomen. It was already dead when I found it so it was immaculately preserved. I didn't keep it to take a picture or this would have been so much easier :doh:

Fascinating creature and quite pretty.

So, description:
1. Six legs with short brown and yellow/white stripes (the coloring on the legs was in segments)
2. Wide, horizontal, brown and yellow/white stripes on the body
3. The body was long and rounded
4. It had a short tail

Any ideas?

Thanks!
 

Halla74

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I found this insect in Georgia that at first resembled what I knew of the brown widow spider. I live a few hundred meters from a park so I see a lot of creatures closeby :smile: I've seen this one before several times so I'm guessing it's pretty common

When I got closer - I realized the front two legs were actually antenna (all black) so it did not have 8 legs or the hourglass marking on the abdomen. It was already dead when I found it so it was immaculately preserved. I didn't keep it to take a picture or this would have been so much easier :doh:

Fascinating creature and quite pretty.

So, description:
1. Six legs with short brown and yellow/white stripes (the coloring on the legs was in segments)
2. Wide, horizontal, brown and yellow/white stripes on the body
3. The body was long and rounded
4. It had a short tail

Any ideas?

Thanks!

You've found my Mother-in-law, dear.

Please return her to the Chattahoochee Mental Hospital in North Florida. :cheese:
 

ergophobe

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You've found my Mother-in-law, dear.

Please return her to the Chattahoochee Mental Hospital in North Florida. :cheese:

You so silly Halla! :rofl1:

Finders keepers, my dear. As she was on my property, I will likely keep her in my possession. I may also fight her with a large sword later ;)

*Looks for Halla's wife's info to inform her of the lovely things he's saying about her mother online while simultaneously putting up a poster saying she accepts cash bribes for silence*:devil:
 

SillySapienne

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Well it had six legs, therefore it definitely was an insect, not an arachnid.

The short tail description kinda throws me off.

A beetle or a "true bug" of some sort, I'm guessing.

More description of the tail, please.
 

ergophobe

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Well it had six legs, therefore it definitely was an insect, not an arachnid.

The short tail description kinda throws me off.

A beetle or a "true bug" of some sort, I'm guessing.

More description of the tail, please.

Yes, I realized it was not an arachnid but it was too late for the title of the thread. :d'oh: It doesn't look like a beetle but what is a true bug? The tail had similar stripes as the legs, was a lot shorter than the legs which were bent like a spider's but the tail itself was straight.


I did look into scorpions but no pincers and no wavy tail. The tail was a straight appendage. It was interesting to read about how the front legs were modified into antennae - that was very similar to the creature I saw.

Thanks!
 

Timeless

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Sounds like a cricket/beetle...

Was it the Jerusalem Cricket?

JerusalemCricket_2.jpg
 
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