Can you identify this strange insect? (2 Viewers)

[stephenoblunt]

Oh well done, the mystery's been solved! Hurrah! My sister can sleep easy in her bedlinen tonight!!!!!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I still haven't recovered from encountering one of these:

 

[theweeyin]

I still haven't recovered from encountering one of these:

WTF???!!!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

They're enormous, over an inch and a half long. About 5 times bigger than a normal wasp. Fucking scared the shit out of us.

 

[Froog]

a hornet?

 

[snakybus]

Take it to the "I've got the hornet for" thread, Scientician!

 

[Froog]

 

[ann post]

 

[plug]

Oh well done, the mystery's been solved! Hurrah! My sister can sleep easy in her bedlinen tonight!!!!!

well not really, considering her house is infested with infernal looking harvestmen.

 

[GO]

My new band ...The Harvestmen

I'm on the right.

 

[Milker]

I still haven't recovered from encountering one of these:

that your afro-american cock inserted for scale?

 

[ratmonkey]

well not really, considering her house is infested with infernal looking harvestmen.

A whole bunch of Steve von Tills?

 

[ann post]

My new band ...The Harvestmen

I'm on the right.

great hat. (on the left)

 

[Froog]

daddy long legs on the guardian is the bulb of the original insect in this thread:

 

[Froog]

oops ignore previous post, insect was already identified.

 

[Cormcolash]

Posting big spiders is great for freaking out the girls though

 

[flashback]

I just had a quick look at the pic, i didn't look through the whole thread though.

So, arachnid, pincers, no tail, so off the top of my head sort of thing to me it looks like a tailless whip scorpion. I don't know what kind of tailless whip scorpion, but that's where I would start looking.
I never actually saw one of them in Ireland. And I haven't been reading those text books since I was around 11, so I might not be remembering clearly.

Did yis come to that conclusion already?
Heres a link.
Don't click it if you are Pete.

http://www.mikescritters.com/clients/_photos/080629tailess whip scorpion.JPG


edit like, obviously that link is not the same species, but the main features seem similar.

 

[flashback]

i see, buffalo Ballet already knew this.
very good.


its not a harvestman, pincers are too small. Look at the legs, 8 plus pincers. Harvestman have eight with two that just look a bit like pincers but they are not, they are legs.

 

[ann post]

edit: its a harvestman.

 

[flashback]

I thought it was a harvestman at first, but the pincers seem to be too big, almost 2x the length of the body. Harvestman have small legs out in front sometimes that look like pincers, but this guy clearly has 8 + 2 big pincers.

this is a better picture probably, you can see the features of amblypygids and tailless whips