# ID a bug for me?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 13, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321 "2006-07-13T13:51:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/1 "2006-07-13T13:51:01Z")
Meet my [new roomate.](http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/Podkayne_Fries/DSC02168.jpg) Three eighths of an inch of puuure ugly. (I apologize for the poor image quality, but it’s kinda tiny and I don’t have a proper macro lens.)
Anybody know what it is?
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/2 "2006-07-13T14:18:27Z")
Wow, one I think I can identify! Looks like a [pseudoscorpion](http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/MES/notes/entnote16.html). The size and shape are just right.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/3 "2006-07-13T14:37:49Z")
Looks like a [tick.](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wmoem.org/images/tick.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wmoem.org/Sar/ticksafety.htm&h=252&w=400&sz=18&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=7Jkf0epmUPFK3M:&tbnh=75&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtick%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff)
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/4 "2006-07-13T14:44:54Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s a Deadly Necrotizing Poisonbug of Agonizing Death. But don’t worry, that’s just a name. The truth is it kills by ripping blood vessels out of your face
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/5 "2006-07-13T14:45:07Z")
definitely a pseudoscorpion; note the bulbous pincers.
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### Author:  [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/6 "2006-07-13T14:47:57Z")
^Yep, and definitely _not_ a tick.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/7 "2006-07-13T15:19:23Z")
Yes, definitely a pseudoscorpion. They are harmless to anything over about a millimeter long. Personally, I think they are kind of cute.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/8 "2006-07-13T15:22:42Z")
I’ll trade you the pseudoscorpion for some of the actualscorpions that I get in my house.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/9 "2006-07-13T15:53:44Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> They are harmless to anything over about a millimeter long.
Must… resist… obvious… joke…
😛
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-bug-for-me/364321/10 "2006-07-13T16:59:55Z")
Pseudoscorpion, eh? Thanks everyone!
**adam yax** , thanks for the offer, but not if you threw in all the tea in China. _shudder_