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🦂 Pseudoscorpion / false scorpion (lemmy.nz)

submitted 10 months ago by happy_piwakawaka to c/newzealand

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http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/pseudoscorpions.php

Pictured here crawling along my shorts. Apparently they'll attach themselves to flys and other flying insects to grab a ride off to other places.

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[–] thatsTheCatch 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've seen these, too! Unlike scorpions, which inject their venom through their tail stinger, pseudoscorpions inject their venom through their pincers! This seems a lot more logical tbh and it's why they don't have a tail