[Tide Change]

Found this guy in a chanterelle a couple of weeks ago, and NO I did not intentionally take it into the house to take it's picture. :bigshock:

Dust 'em off good! :grin:

 

[Dullhook]

I'll be sure to wash the mushrooms more thoroughly from now on! :smile:

Does anyone know what it is? :shrug:

 

[Riverkeeper]

That's a scorpion. Did you cut the tail off?

 

[Fshklr]

where were you picking to find that!!! Arizona???


:lurk:

 

[STGRule]

Is it a scorpion? It looks like half cricket and half scorpion. Weird.

Is that another famous stove picture? :wink: That seems to be the stage of choice for oogey bug/insect pictures.

 

[greenbuttskunk]

it looks like a scorpion and a mole cricket got the nasty on one night, and 9 months later. Congrats, you are the proud parents of an ugly baby scorpimole! :bigshock:

 

[Small Fry]

I found one of those or should I say one found me years agon do in southern Oregon. But the one I saw was almost an inch long. One mean looking critter.

 

[HeavyMetal BankFisherman]

That looks like a Paruroctonus Boreus or Northern Scorpion without tail/stinger.

 

[Tide Change]

I grew up in the Mojave desert, so I've seen more than my share of the typical scorpion with tail and stinger. You might be on to something HMBF. This guy didn't have any appendages back there.

 

[Riverkeeper]

It is definately not a cricket. I count 8 legs plus the pinchers, making it an arachnid and not an insect. Although scorpions are mostly are found east of the cascades, the store at Promontory park on the clackamas used to have a couple in a terrarium that were found in the area by loggers.

 

[Abalone]

Wow ! That's only the second time I have seen one of those.
I am curious to know what part of the state you found it in. A long time ago my brother and I were looking for Damsel flies in Crane prarie and we found one or something very similar. But it was in water and while we tried to preserve it, it jus dissolved away. Really creepy looking.

Looks half Scorpion and half Crawdad.

I hope you I.D. it.

How big is it ? Ours was kind of small, maybe and inch or more.

 

[Fish_N_Russ]

That group of arachnids are called Pseudoscorpions (do a google image search for more pics), as they have no stinger and most have silk glands as well. This one looks to be a Chernetid, very common in leaf litter, moss, etc on the forest floor.

 

[Old Coot]

And people ask me why I ALWAYS carry a tent when backpacking!

 

[Tide Change]

Abalone:
It was found near the Wilson River.

Fish_N_Russ:
I googled pseudoscorpion, and you are right on the money. There are a couple of pictures there that are identical.

It was only about half a centimeter long. I have a picture of it with a dime next to it, but it didn't turn out too well. I will fiddle with it and maybe post it later. Right now I'm off to help ripnlips put some breakin hours in his new NorthRiver. :dance:

 

[Fish_N_Russ]

yeah they are tiny guys.......there are tons of little beasties like that in forest litter/soil :yay:

 

[Riverkeeper]

That group of arachnids are called Pseudoscorpions (do a google image search for more pics), as they have no stinger and most have silk glands as well.

Nice call Russ! Pseudoscorpion...I guess you learn something new every day.

 

[HeavyMetal BankFisherman]

I was way off. That's what you get for jumping to conclusions without any real facts.
Pseudoscorpion on a Chanterelle.

Third picture from bottom of the page shows your little friend. They seem to like Chanterelles.

I like bugs and stuff. This is a cool post.

 

[Abalone]

That's tiny compared the one we found at Crane Prairie.

 

[Norski]

Abalone, I came across one in the lake next to C P I was looken for [petunias!] too, I a just about jump out of the water, never seen some thing like that.

 

[INSAYN]

You can find Scorpions just north of the Bridge of the Gods up behind Ash Lake. Get up near the powerlines and start flipping rocks over. I found 13 in about a half hour up there.

INSAYN™