What the hell is this strange insect I just found? [PICS]

reply to post by pauljs75



Woah, woah, woah! Termites get that BIG? I thought termites were tiny...like sugar ants?

:swoon:

reply to post by Samuelis


Hey, man I saw the strangest bug the other day. It looked like a bee mixed with a horsefly, with the body of an ant. It was an orange putrid color.
I was terrified of it. It flew around very clumsy and instead of crawling it slid on the floor. I was at a business and the other patrons who saw it was like "wtf is that!" It was so disgusting that a lady killed it. Lots of weird insect being witnessed by people all over.

Should be easy to tell if its an insect or a crustacean I mean give the claw a lil squeeze, I figure if it crushes its insectoid.

I mean what does the meat look like, that should be an answer to your questions whether if its insect or not.

reply to post by Samuelis

looks like the front part of a crayfish(or" craw dad", "fresh water lobster").. is that a claw or a "mandible"?(pinchers)?
could be a bird caught one in a pond and dropped him half eaten over your yard.. the tails are tasty!

im fairly sure the "head", or the eyes/front area, is not the pincher end that most of you are seeming to think.
i think the pincher is the tail, just based on the direction that the legs are pointing. it would seem unnatural for an insect to walk that way if the pincher was the front.

Maybe what's left of a fiddler's crab?

reply to post by Samuelis


My guess is it's probably a type of hermet crab plucked or dislodged from its shell,birds drop mollusks and Crustacean's often to crack the shell to get at the meat,probably how it got there.

Originally posted by Teeky
reply to post by Samuelis

 

Hey, man I saw the strangest bug the other day. It looked like a bee mixed with a horsefly, with the body of an ant. It was an orange putrid color.
I was terrified of it. It flew around very clumsy and instead of crawling it slid on the floor. I was at a business and the other patrons who saw it was like "wtf is that!" It was so disgusting that a lady killed it. Lots of weird insect being witnessed by people all over.

haha That bee hybrid sounds funny as hell!

I have had a fisherman view the insect/crustacean and he has said that it looks like nothing found locally in the area.

Maybe we are under attack!

reply to post by Asktheanimals


funny, my 5 yr old was asking about raccoons & squirals in our garden, I think he's watching to much sesame street from USA lol.

On topic defiantly looks like small headless cray, was it alive when you found it?

reply to post by all2human


Maybe you right. But I live 5-6 k's inland? Would a bird carry it over such a large distance?

Originally posted by feelingconnected
reply to post by Asktheanimals

 

funny, my 5 yr old was asking about raccoons & squirals in our garden, I think he's watching to much sesame street from USA lol.

On topic defiantly looks like small headless cray, was it alive when you found it?

You think so? With that second set of pincers it would have to be from the cray/crustacean family?

Nah it was pretty dead when I found it. First impression was that it was insect.... to the untrained eye

reply to post by Samuelis


I've heard of birds taking baby sheep , so I guess it would be possible .

I think this will explain everything....

Originally posted by MDDoxs
not near monsanto GM corn field are you?

I hope this is not the start of a 60's cheesy horror movie...attack of the giant ants..

haha no GM farms near my house. Actually there are no farm's near my house. I'm surrounded by a large reserve that is basically untouched. Tassie is usually pretty good for GM stuff I think. Could be wrong.

reply to post by phroziac




That made my morning!

reply to post by Samuelis


G,day mate. my first guess would have been a white ant with a suntan, but your down in tassie. second guess would have been part of a yabbie, (handicapped maron). but i think it is a baby toggle. i still have my old army issue toggle rope. you want to borrow it. tie the bugger down. hahaha

a small crab with a torn limb..?

My best guess is that it's a giant termite or something close to it
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I think badly mangled crayfish