I have found a strange bug, when I first found it, it looked like a stone from one of my grandchildren’s toys or craft kit. It is 3/4 in long,1/2" wide on the rear end… Shaped sort of slightly like a pear, it has 6 legs, a small dark head with feelers, it can pull it’s feet in to its body. It is gray with a small amount of cream( sort of) spots. When it’s legs are inside of it. it looks like a decoration; it wiggles it’s legs and feelers. seems to have a soft body(looks like it is made of clay). I have looked on line and have found nothing, I tried to photograph it but it wiggles so I can’t get a clear picture of it. I am hoping at least one of the dopers can identify it for me.
Soft body, grey, tiny legs, no mention of wings. Sounds like a soft tick to me - apart from the number of legs (ticks have 8, but they do probe things with their front pair of legs - so perhaps those could be mistaken for antennae)
It is soft, has no wings, and can seem to be very hearty. All the legs are near the top half of it’s body. I spent a good deal of time looking on line but did not find anything similar. Just loos like a flat stone and can blow its back part larger.
It is soft, has no wings, and can seem to be very hearty. All the legs are near the top half of it’s body. I spent a good deal of time looking on line but did not find anything similar,. Just looks like a flat stone and can blow its back part larger.
It does resemble it in a way, bur is more flat and has 6 legs and 2 antennae, When I first saw it I thought it was a grey decorative stone, then it pulled its legs out and started to wiggle. I did get a picture of it(finally) but in the enlarged picture it looks brown. This is the closest to any bug I have looked up on Google .For some reason neither Photo Shop, or Picasa have anything close. I will have one of my children see if they can get it on line for me. The only part it seemed to blow up was it’s back part. Other than that it has stayed flat. It is still alive. Thanks for the site.
I found an engorged tick in the floor the other day which fits the description. I came on here to ask for ID, but I got the idea to search for ticks before I hit submit and was able to ID it myself. It looked exactly like this Flickr
I will email you. I got some good pictures of it from 3 views. It does look a lot like the one you poste but his one is flat, it could be that it hasn’t eaten in a while. After seeing the picture enlarged and clear, I noted what I thought were feelers are more legs It has 4 on each side, one is missing in the middle of the others.
