I was feeding my cat this morning and found the weirdest bug I've ever seen on my kitchen floor. It moves pretty quick. It can go forward and backward but also sideways. When I showed it to my mom, she asked if it was a tick or a flea. I know for sure it's neither. It's about the size of a tick but it has a soft body. It's body is about tan in color but it has thin black lines going horizontal across it's abdomen. It has eight legs like spiders and ticks but the unsusal part about it is that it has tiny little pinchers like a scorpion has. I have always been a bug freak. Spiders don't scare me. I love snakes and frogs but this one stumps me. If anyone knows what it is or has any ideas please help. If it helps, I live in southern Wisconsin just south of Madison.
2007-04-16 05:47:27 · 3 answers · asked by frenchsilk86 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Take a look at this guy:
http://triffophoto3.tripod.com/tpo/id31.html
Pseudoscorpion.
Good description by the way.....you have the makings of an entomologist!
2007-04-16 05:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm wondering if you're seeing a sun scorpion? They're not really scorpions, but are related to daddy-longlegs and similar creatures. Yours (if that's what it is) sounds like an immature one, but that's about right for this time of year.
I'm including a link to a picture, below.
2007-04-16 06:01:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These could be engorged ticks or even parts broken off from a tape worm . I would call your vet and get a good worm medicine and keep her brushed often. Always keep flea drops on your cat if she goes outside.
2016-05-21 03:37:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋