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--- In insectstings@yahoogroups.com, cargojfk@a... wrote:
> thxn david but it istn a bed bug actually looks nothing like that
picture

OK, lets try an assassin bug
http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/factsheets/wheelbug.html

they are quite big things!




Thu Oct 9, 2003 7:22 am

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I was opening some mail, and next thing i know i start scrathing my upper chest, after about 5 minutes , I feel something attached to me, only to pick off this...
craigcatt2003
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Oct 8, 2003
6:54 am

OK - well the picture isn't great but at a guess I think it was a bed bug. You will find a picture at ...
David Glaser
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Oct 8, 2003
8:04 am

thxn david but it istn a bed bug actually looks nothing like that picture...
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craigcatt2003
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Oct 9, 2003
6:56 am

... picture Oh dear - well I have looked in all my insect books and you have beaten me I am afraid. Sorry!...
David Glaser
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Oct 9, 2003
6:57 am

... picture OK, lets try an assassin bug http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/factsheets/wheelbug.html they are quite big things!...
David Glaser
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Oct 9, 2003
7:22 am

nope not that, no frontal mandibles...
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craigcatt2003
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Oct 9, 2003
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Hi Craig, In the picture it does look similar to an earwig. Looking closely it appears to have been damaged and that the tail end is missing. It seems to be a...
DOUGLAS MONTGOMERY
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Oct 13, 2003
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Thanks for that Doug - I had it down as an earwig creature too but I didn't think that earwigs bit. Having said that, I guess that is what those two large...
David Glaser
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