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A few minutes ago this creature crawled up the wall behind my desk. It moves VERY fast, but I caught it just barely.
I know the photos are blurry, so I'll describe it as best I can. It's about 3cm in length (body is 2cm). The color ranges from a burnt orange near the beak (yes, it has a beak!), to an opaque tan midsection, and a brown and black stripped back end.
There are 6 (from the smaller midsection) regular looking spider legs. The 2 hind legs look almost like a cricket's, with barbs and all, but seem to function like a spiders. The front two appendages are connected in the same manner as the rest to the abdomen, but look more like antennae. The weird thing is these appendages are used somewhat like arms, and seem to have a lot better grip on glass than the others. It keeps trying to pull it's way up the sides of the glass jar with them, but doesn't use them when it runs along the bottom.
The body is in two main sections, and the head doesn't seem to be seperate at all. The hind section is shaped a lot like a wasp's, but with no stinger as far as I can tell. The sections aren't really seperated like a spider or ant's, they sort of run into each other. All the appendages are connected to the front section.
The head is even less seperate. It's mostly fuzzy and burnt orange. It seems to set upon the front section. On top of the head are two tiny black balls which look like eyes, but are completely outside the head, on very short (1/10th mm) black appendages.
This thing is very quick. I'm 2/3 on catching them so far, but it's mostly luck. They hop back when startled a few inches, almost instantly, and can cover a meter a second easily.
So... what is it?! And should I be afraid that they (seen 3 in 4 years, maybe the same one) occupy my living space?
I know the photos are blurry, so I'll describe it as best I can. It's about 3cm in length (body is 2cm). The color ranges from a burnt orange near the beak (yes, it has a beak!), to an opaque tan midsection, and a brown and black stripped back end.
There are 6 (from the smaller midsection) regular looking spider legs. The 2 hind legs look almost like a cricket's, with barbs and all, but seem to function like a spiders. The front two appendages are connected in the same manner as the rest to the abdomen, but look more like antennae. The weird thing is these appendages are used somewhat like arms, and seem to have a lot better grip on glass than the others. It keeps trying to pull it's way up the sides of the glass jar with them, but doesn't use them when it runs along the bottom.
The body is in two main sections, and the head doesn't seem to be seperate at all. The hind section is shaped a lot like a wasp's, but with no stinger as far as I can tell. The sections aren't really seperated like a spider or ant's, they sort of run into each other. All the appendages are connected to the front section.
The head is even less seperate. It's mostly fuzzy and burnt orange. It seems to set upon the front section. On top of the head are two tiny black balls which look like eyes, but are completely outside the head, on very short (1/10th mm) black appendages.
This thing is very quick. I'm 2/3 on catching them so far, but it's mostly luck. They hop back when startled a few inches, almost instantly, and can cover a meter a second easily.
So... what is it?! And should I be afraid that they (seen 3 in 4 years, maybe the same one) occupy my living space?
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.. Everything goes, hell's angels, serial killers, raving dogs, sharks..but those spiders moving fast.. uh oh I just can't take it. I'd run as fast as I could and call someone up who's not afraid of them and let him kill it for me.
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