"tick-scorpion"?

[swords]

We were having our "Secret Santa" party tonight at work and one guy brought in a big box of imported Asian Pears. They were softball sized - mine was 2lbs! lol

Anyway Loan grabbed one and she showed me this bug which was crawling on it that looked like a tick but it had two big scorpion or crab like pincers. I'd never seen anything like it and all of a sudden the other girl Xeng blew it onto the floor and stomped on it so I didn't get a chance to catch it and take a pic.

Any idea what it was?

 

[SirKristoff]

Sounds like some form of Pseudo-scorpion

 

[marvin1997]

Yup...they're small-scorpion-like-thingy

 

[Devon]

oooooo my mom was in a hotel once and saw one on her towel, she got a video, it was so cool. We researched them a little bit and apparently they eat dust mites and like moist places... lol

 

[Grey Moss]

No way, asian pears? I love those things. My mom goes to H mart all the time for those things.

 

[Drew]

did it look anything like this http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/pseudoscorpion_sharon.jpg

 

[Devon]

that's exactly what my mom vidoed lol

 

[cp-connection]

I saw a whip scorpion in Mexico that was as big as my torso with its legs outstretched. Scary!

 

[swords]

Yup Drew that's just what it looked like! Thanks for the image!

Do they get bigger than about 1/8 - 1/4"? That was the size we saw. It would be cool to see a big one - maybe not torso sized though!

 

[SirKristoff]

Lol whip scorpions are gross as all hell. Swords, i believe they remain pretty small but there are some larger ones, but not much more than a 1/4 inch or so i believe....but yeah, when i picked up my seedgrown hamata in september of 08, i found a pseudo-scorpion crawling in my car lol.

 

[Ant]

I want to see a pseudo-scorpion. They look cool from all the pictures I have seen.

 

[Drew]

than sir kristoff was right it is a form of Pseudo-scorpion

 

[rattler]

if yah want to see them start flipping over rocks......ive found them around here out in the garden before.....gotta look close, most are fairly small and fairly well camouflaged.....

 

[Ant]

I have been flipping rocks for years. lol When I look for ants, I flip almost everything and have never seen one. Do they even live in Massachusetts?

 

[rattler]

would assume so, they arent common here, atleast where i look but ive come across them a couple dozen times over 20 years.....keep flipping you will eventually find them.....will say where i find one i usually find several...

 

[Lil Stinkpot]

I found one, once. It was soo tiny. After reading that it eats dust mites, I turned it loose in the house.

 

[Fred]

you can find them in leaf litter, since there's a lot of tiny preys to feed. what's cool about them is that their paralyzing venom (absolutely harmless to us, even for large tropical species) is contained in their pincers. i also learned that they tend to cling onto birds or other animals to change location!