Help Identify this Spider/Insect

[ergophobe]

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 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

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]

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 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

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.

 

[ergophobe]

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

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

You so silly Halla!

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*

 

[SillySapienne]

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.

 

[Biaxident]

Thelyphonida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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[ergophobe]

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.

Thelyphonida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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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!

 

[BRMC117]

would it be this guy? http://i.pbase.com/v3/48/95248/1/48116303.GardenSpider5.jpg its a garden spider

 

[LEGERdeMAIN]

it's forbidden

 

[Timeless]

Sounds like a cricket/beetle...

Was it the Jerusalem Cricket?

 

[BRMC117]

it's forbidden

Oh snap! lol well I guess just google Garden Spider.