One weird a** spider...(no pics)

I just found quite possibly the weirdest looking spider I've ever seen. It's body length is probably 1-1.5 mm long, it has eight legs that are all smaller diameter then a human hair. The weird thing about it though is on the front of it it has these arms with what look like crab claws on the end, but the very ends are just two little stingers that spread apart kind of. These arms, if fully extened out past the front of it's body make it probably 6-7 mm long, they're pretty freaky and I still have it, it's stuck to some scotch tape so I dont know if I'll be able to remove it but I'm going to try to search for it quick to see if i can get any pics resembling it...

Edit: I searched crab spiders on google just for the hell of it and didn't find anything like it. A better description is it's basicaly all brown, has 8 tiny legs, then those front arms...I'll keep searching...

eew, you got crabs son.

That's not a spider you found, it's a Harvestman.

http://www.lastgreatplaces.org/berkshire/images/harvestman.jpg
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/Arthropods/Harvestman/harvestman01headcloseup.jpg

eew, you got crabs son.


HAHAHAHAHA :lol: That's exactly what my parents said when i showed it to them.

Freakray that is nothing what this one looks like. It's legs are extremely short compared to it's body, except the back legs, they are probably half the body lenght and kind of come back, plus when i say brown, i mean like tree bark brown, and it's a solid color, no white or black or anything else. The front arms look much like that of a scorpions tail if that helps, except there are two of them and they connect to the body in the very front of it. Also, it's body is fairly flat, no round thorax or w/e. I forget the parts of a spider, but it does have the 8 legs, plus those front arms, totaling ten appendages if that helps anymore.

Also our digital camera, and my Canon Rebel could not focus clear enough for me to take a close up picture so I'll continue looking on the internet.

So what you got is a tailless scorpion?

By your initial description it reminded me of a Harvestman, but it would well be a tailless scorpion too.

Do you live on the moon?





The only spiders I have come across are the daddy long legs or whatever they are called

Perhaps something like this?

http://www.strictlyreptiles.tv/strictlyreptile/photos/Tailless_whip_scorpion.jpg

Perhaps something like this?

http://www.strictlyreptiles.tv/strictlyreptile/photos/Tailless_whip_scorpion.jpg


Sorry, legs are still way too long...

This is what I came up with, called a False Scorpion. Those pictures kind of resemble it but it's still a little bit different from them.

http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/fscorp.htm

Hey, I said something like, there are thousands of varieties of these things, I just posted one such example.

I've seen them with short legs too.

Just trying to help.....my bad.

omg^ that would freak me the hell out if I found that. If that's not it, then possibly its a baby scorpion? Funny though, last night I found a spider in my clothes. I picked up my clothes to do laundry, and out dropped a spider onto my bed. It was about the shape of a black widow, but with not as freaky legs, and it was all dark brown. I think it was a brown recluse. Scared the hell out of me.. I do not want to get bit by a brown recluse.

Hey, I said something like, there are thousands of varieties of these things, I just posted one such example.

I've seen them with short legs too.

Just trying to help.....my bad.


Ok my apologies freakray...I forget that although a spider may not look quite like another that they are both still classified under the same scientific name, again sorry for that.

lets keep it civil ladies.

Those spiders are the type you'd see in movies....1000 times bigger though...and man hungry

This thread creeps me out. I hate fucking spiders.

why did u assume it was a spidere in the first place...there are so many arachnids out there, shit...

u don't have anyway of takin a pic of it? no one has a camera phone anywhere near u???

This thread creeps me out. I hate fucking spiders.

im with him. I cant stand spiders. <shudders>

Perhaps something like this?

That thing sent a chill down my spine. Goddamn it's ugly.

I woke up one morning, had scorpions as big as bloody cocker-spaniels crawling all over me. I was able to drink them away though.

I hate fucking spiders.

i could say something about this but it would just be too easy...

:evillol:

and numbknutz, stop making stupid pointless posts or you will be removed from this website.

...You sure it was a spider? You described an ANT pretty well.

i could say something about this but it would just be too easy...

:evillol:
I saw that and was waiting for it. HAHAHA

That's not a spider you found, it's a Harvestman.

http://www.lastgreatplaces.org/berkshire/images/harvestman.jpg
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/Arthropods/Harvestman/harvestman01headcloseup.jpg
Them are called Grand-Daddy Long-Legs here in Arkansas.

Just a question... If you hate spiders, why read a topic about them? :P

Oh and... That was a horrible way to phrase that. :P

...You sure it was a spider? You described an ANT pretty well.

Hehehe...never thought of that...that's pretty good observation Davo.

And no, I doubt even a camera phone will work. This spider is tiny.

Edit: I put it up close to a lamp and was able to get a fairly detailed picture.

Here ya go...

http://cfassler.photosite.com/Spider/

In the pics you can clearly see it's eight legs and huge arm things. In the third pic(bottom one) it is taken with a .7mm piece of pencil lead to show the size of it's body.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!

THAT THING LOOKS STUPID!!!!!!!!!


sorry....

looks like a crab. or a mite... or a tick... or somethin.. not like a spider tho. :)

I'd say Freakray nailed it, definitely a Tailless Scorpion.

I'd say Freakray nailed it, definitely a Tailless Scorpion.

Yeah, on that website they call them false scorpions so he was right on top of it.

Gritmaster, maybe I think your face looks stupid, and it's clearly a spider, and did I and others not say it looked like a crab early on?

jeez that spider has huge ass pincers, goddamn. Spiders rock. My cousin said that first fake scorpion on the first page, in fear factor some contestants had to eat that exact same spider. that's disgusting

Damn it freakray, all those spider photos are freaking me out. I'll probably have nightmares tonight. Damn. I should never have looked at this thread. Funny thing is live spiders do not freak me out but seeing spider pictures the size of a monitor does.:banghead:

TS out

Them are called Grand-Daddy Long-Legs here in Arkansas.

We call them that here in N.Y too. I hate spiders...

Btw jet lee where have you been? havent seen much ot'ing from you.

Well, I'm VERY afraid of spiders, and that little bug u got ain't no spider, although those Claws HURT.

jeez that spider has huge ass pincers, goddamn. Spiders rock. My cousin said that first fake scorpion on the first page, in fear factor some contestants had to eat that exact same spider. that's disgusting

I saw that one. They ate African cave dwelling spiders on Fear Factor. On a later episode, the contestants said that they got bitten and pinched inside their mouths when chomping on those bugs.

guh... thats gross.

Well, I'm VERY afraid of spiders, and that little bug u got ain't no spider, although those Claws HURT.

no they dont. they are harmless.

no they dont. they are harmless.

Exactly what he said, if you visit that page it says that, plus, i dont think one of it's claws or w/e are big enough to even grab hold of your skin as the spider is only 2 mm long.