Help bacon find out what kind of bug he found x:

[bacon]

Okay, so I noticed this peculiar bug hanging out on my ceiling and i didn't know what it was. It almost looked like a baby scorpion. I didn't want to kill it so I got the tuba-ware so that I could catch and release it.

However, upon close inspection, it wasn't a baby scorpion at all, but instead this peculiar insect.

It had the same structure as a Springtail,

however its antennae were super long and thin and it had a super long thin tail as well, hence it looked like a scorpion at first glance. Also, the tail and antennae were yellow, not some cheap brown yellow but legit bold yellow.

An artists rendition:

Anyways, in case you didnt read all of that, here are the features:

• Looks like a baby scorpion. Same body color.
• Long yellow antennae and tail
• Climbs walls
• Agile
• Small, maybe the size of a large ant or something colse. Approx: 1cm

 

[Pokémaniac]

:O

I can't help you, but...

Once I swear I saw a really fucking big moth-bug-death thing on my leg. It was like blue and green and really fucking creepy. I saw it, looked up, looked down and it was gone. I was fully awake at the time so it wasn't a dream, but I dunno I might've hallucinated it or something.

 

[Guest]

;D

 

[Misery]

Could it be a baby firebrat?

 

[Pokémaniac]

Or a crippled firebrat? Attacked firebrat? Mutant firebrat?

 

[Misery]

Alien Firebrat?
Deformed Firebrat?
Fired Firebrat?

 

[moxie]

that's awesome! you're awesome for not killing it. I figured I was the only one who loved bugs. of course I can't really help you though 'cause I don't really know anything about them!

as far as rare bugs go though, one time I found a green scorpion out in the desert in New Mexico, which was pretty cool.

 

[moog]

that looks like a big ass termite

 

[Anski]

Was the length of it all together 1cm or the body?

 

[bacon]

just the body.

and blink the antennae look alike but the color is off there are more yellow, like banana yellow only brighter. and they were thinner. The body was lighter however and it didnt have 3 back tails.

 

[Anski]

It might have been a very, very young silverfish. Their antennas are brighter, and the three prongs don't grow until a few weeks, in which it would be much past 1cm.

 

[Guest]

;D

 

[Venetia]

looks to me like a larval stage of bedbug, before feeding.

http://www.bed-bugs-handbook.com/image- ... ecycle.jpg

have you been waking up with random bugbites?

 

[Venetia]

oh wait it had a tail? didnt see that at first.

ah, i can't tell from your drawing ...

did it have a prothorax?
(that is like a "sternum" ... a piece connecting the "body" and the "head").
if so, and if legs were coming out of it, it is probably a larval beetle or weevil.
(hm, but then it wouldn't have a tail either ...)

if there is no thorax or prothorax then yeah it's probably a type of springtail. esp if it hopped!
they esp live in deserts ... and are all over the damn place usually.
when i lived out west i'd see them a lot. they were typ rather dark in color. but they come in a lot of diff colors.

def not a larval scorpion.
baby scorpions look like spiders, then get thicker and fatter and their tails and pincers develop quickly. no antennae.

 

[bacon]

So far blink has been the closest with the bug. It definitely wasnt anything beetle related. x:

I guess what bothered me were the antennae. I mean, seeing florescent green antennae in AZ is pretty non-existent. Ive never seem something like that before. Also, it had one tail. One more thing, it didnt have a shell like thing or anything protecting it. It was squishy. The firebrant looks like it has a shell thats why. Also, I know it wasnt a silverfish because it wasnt silver or anything near that. x:

The body looked like this. Just like that. Thats why I thought it was a scorpion at first. It was only when I tried to catch it i realized otherwise. Also, the legs didnt bend as well like the scorpion, it just had the same body. We get wall scorpions here that climb walls and like to hang around on light-switches in dimly litted areas. x:

 

[Venetia]

well sometimes bugs migrate into AZ from mexico; they have some gnarly ones down there.

silverfish aren't always necessarily silver. sometimes they're brown too. depends on what they eat. firebrats are related to them.

the "tail" is called a cercus ... true bugs almost always have 2 or more of them if they have cerci at all.

did it have 8 legs or 6 legs?

(if it was 8 then it could have been a scorpion or a desert spider.)

what about the waterscorpion (note: not actually a scorpion; more accurately called a nepa)?

http://www3.northern.edu/natsource/INVERT1/ws1.jpg
(bottom left one)

they live in water, but would be able to move about on your walls and such too. but they're typ all brown.

could also be the thrips bug ... which are typ very very tiny but could be as large as half an inch long. they come in a lot of colors.
http://www.hydroponicsdictionary.com/im ... rthrip.jpg
http://www.jasons-indoor-guide-to-organ ... stages.jpg
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publ ... thrips.jpg

western flower thrips have striped bodies and yellow antennae. sometimes they have a false filament coming off the end of the abdomen.

 

[vgvgf]

I bet it's a springtail. This one looks just like yours, but other color:

Found at: http://www.uoguelph.ca/pdc/Factsheets/Insect/Springtails.htm

 

[bacon]

the antennae were longer. The antennae were as long if not longer than the body. They looked like the firebrat's. I mean, it was a firebrat with one tail, lighter in color, yellow antennae, and didnt have a shell making it squishy.

Ven, thats not my bug. :c
So far blink has been closest so Im just wondering if it was a firebrat that lost two antennae.

My picture isnt super accurate. x:

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

In my country, Costa Rica, we have a similar bug called Triatoma. They're blood sucking parasites that can transmit Chagas disease.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatoma

 

[Lyric]

My vote goes for silverfish: