The Mrs. caught this guy on our kitchen floor, and snapped its picture before sending it to the great beyond. But I’ve not seen its ilk around here before, and am curious as to what it is.
It was maybe a centimeter long, at most.
Can any SDMB entymologists give me the proper etymology on its species?
It’s a pseudoscorpion, as pictured in this thread (post 12) actually.
Thanks!
Glad I could help.
And I was admittedly trying to answer it before anyone else, so I am surprised my post came out without some kind of spelling error every other word or accidentally linking to porn or something. 
“Oh I can answer this! Must get my links straight before someone else does!”
I’ve already informed the Mrs. of the species, and sent her appropriate links. Though I suspect she won’t find it as interesting as I did.
You answered fast. But you did edit once, you know. Probably linked to arachnid porn or something the first time…
Does anyone know what I found in my apartment the other day based on this terrible cell phone picture?
I saw it on my wall and it flew right at me after I threw some socialist book at it.
That’s got the general shape of a box elder bug
Nah, The suspect bug has “shoulders” and wider segments on the legs than a box elder bug.
There are a lot of bugs that have that general shape. I’m guessing a wheel bug or something in the assassin bug family.
Yeah, its legs had wide areas. It also had a pattern around the edge and seemed to be really flat on top.
If I upload the pictures of the shield bug thingie I’ve seen around the house, would you guys be able to indetify it, too?
Actually, I’ve spotted at least three different kinds of what look like shield bugs in the house this winter. I think they’re beautiful, but the male members of the family freak out at the sight of them.
Its a leaf footed bug, family Coreidae (so says this card-carrying entomologist)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Qadgop, your picture made me :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:!!
I’m sorry but I don’t answer any further questions without a lawyer present.
Palooka: Those bugs appear on my pomegranate tree. They’re not very skittish and don’t generally go anywhere when I start poking around. Though they do have wings and will fly directly into your face when you’re least suspecting it.
You’re in the New York metro area, right? We’ve been suffering from an influx of stink bugs over the last few years, particularly in the fall and winter as they come inside from the cold. They’re very shield-shaped.
My mother (in suburban NJ) has set aside a paper cup on her kitchen counter labeled ‘bug trap’ that she uses to trap the stink bugs and release them outside. (She knows they’ll probably die in the cold, but they smell when you squash them, hence the name.) She’s been getting several per week since it started to get cold in October-November.
They’ve been appearing in my house recently, too. I’ve been using an old (empty) prescription bottle, since it lets me keep them trapped until I can toss them out the door. Also contains the stink if they let loose, but they actually seem not to mind being bottled.
I wish there were a cool word like defenestrate for throwing something out a door.
Western Conifer Seed Bug (seen here) is defniitely what it was after flipping through a few Coreidae-family bugs.
Liberate?
I was pretty sure that was the species (its very common) but didn’t want to commit myself beyond Family as the picture was pretty blurry.
Deportation!
Deportication?
That’s one of them, I think. And doing a Google search, it looks like the elongated ones are squash bugs. That just leaves the green ones, but I don’t remember many details other being green.
They’re not pests or anything, are they? I think they’re cool, but my dad and brothers want to nuke them from orbit.
