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

[v10_viper]

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...

[BP2K2Max]

eew, you got crabs son.

[freakray]

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

[v10_viper]

Originally Posted by BP2K2Max

eew, you got crabs son.

HAHAHAHAHA 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.

[freakray]

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.

[Raz_Kaz]

Do you live on the moon?





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

[freakray]

Perhaps something like this?

[v10_viper]

Originally Posted by freakray

Perhaps something like this?

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

[freakray]

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.

[RickwithaTbird]

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.

[v10_viper]

Originally Posted by freakray

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.

[freakray]

[RickwithaTbird]

lets keep it civil ladies.

[Raz_Kaz]

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

[TexasF355F1]

This thread creeps me out. I hate fucking spiders.