Whats That Bug? with Kai.

[Remington]

I went fishing in Japan, and instead of traditional earthworms they used these little armoured buggers. I don't have pics, but they had these characteristics:

-About a inch and a half long, slightly thicker than an average worm
-Overlapping scaly plates, hard to the touch
-Tiny little bumps/legs, but they seemed vestigial and non-functional
-The underbelly had softer scales, they could be easily pierced by a hook
-When I held it by one end, it extruded another half centimeter of itself (almost like prolapsing) and tried to bite me. The orifice on the end of the prolapsed section has two tiny black fangs, similar to spider ones.


Have you heard of anything like that?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I went fishing in Japan, and instead of traditional earthworms they used these little armoured buggers. I don't have pics, but they had these characteristics:

-About a inch and a half long, slightly thicker than an average worm
-Overlapping scaly plates, hard to the touch
-Tiny little bumps/legs, but they seemed vestigial and non-functional
-The underbelly had softer scales, they could be easily pierced by a hook
-When I held it by one end, it extruded another half centimeter of itself (almost like prolapsing) and tried to bite me. The orifice on the end of the prolapsed section has two tiny black fangs, similar to spider ones.


Have you heard of anything like that?

I've heard of it. In my nightmares.

[Suu]

I don't think I have any pictures of weird bugs, everything in RI is pretty common, but I was rather impressed that we have stinkbugs up here. 

In Florida, I was just used to seeing the ever-so-popular lovebug and every kind of ridiculous spider known to mankind.

Oh yeah, there's one for you, Kai, I won't look it up because, well...you know me, but we had this spider that was chillin' in our screened in pool for a while, aside from the spiny orb fuckers. This one had a shiny metallic ass. I shit you not. Very spindly, grayish in color, but with a shiny metallic ass. Any ideas?

[Nast]

It kind of sounded like this.

[Remington]

It kind of sounded like this.

That's pretty much it, at least for the mouth-thing.
It wasn't so much a tongue-thing that came out though, the worm actually prolapsed it's fanged mouth out at me. Japan has some fucking weird insects.

[Nast]

It kind of sounded like this.

That's pretty much it, at least for the mouth-thing.
It wasn't so much a tongue-thing that came out though, the worm actually prolapsed it's fanged mouth out at me. Japan has some fucking weird insects.

Well, I for one don't do that till the third date.

[Triple Zero]

This is a pretty coloured moth I found lying dead at the floor at my parent's place one day:

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4487/p1110442.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2145/p1110444.jpg
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3831/p1110445.jpg
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8697/p1110446.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4381/p1110441y.jpg

[Kai]

This is a pretty coloured moth I found lying dead at the floor at my parent's place one day:

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4487/p1110442.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2145/p1110444.jpg
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3831/p1110445.jpg
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8697/p1110446.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4381/p1110441y.jpg

Sphingidae!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingidae

I don't have time right now to check for myself, but you can compare the pictures here: http://tpittaway.tripod.com/sphinx/list.htm

And get a determination. Let me know what you think.

[Kai]

I went fishing in Japan, and instead of traditional earthworms they used these little armoured buggers. I don't have pics, but they had these characteristics:

-About a inch and a half long, slightly thicker than an average worm
-Overlapping scaly plates, hard to the touch
-Tiny little bumps/legs, but they seemed vestigial and non-functional
-The underbelly had softer scales, they could be easily pierced by a hook
-When I held it by one end, it extruded another half centimeter of itself (almost like prolapsing) and tried to bite me. The orifice on the end of the prolapsed section has two tiny black fangs, similar to spider ones.


Have you heard of anything like that?

http://images.google.com/images?q=eunicid+worm&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=6WF9S7ukOMW0tgeUx9GgBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQsAQwAA

Those look anything like it?

[Triple Zero]

This is a pretty coloured moth I found lying dead at the floor at my parent's place one day:

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4487/p1110442.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2145/p1110444.jpg
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3831/p1110445.jpg
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8697/p1110446.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4381/p1110441y.jpg

Sphingidae!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingidae

I don't have time right now to check for myself, but you can compare the pictures here: http://tpittaway.tripod.com/sphinx/list.htm

And get a determination. Let me know what you think.

Cool, I clicked around some, and I think it was probably either this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deilephila_elpenor

or this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deilephila_porcellus

the elpenor is too big, it wasn't that big, IIRC. but the porcellus is a bit brighter pink that I remember.

also this is a really cool closeup of the porcellus: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/824410

[Kai]

Remember that scales fade in color after death, so the living pink may be much brighter than you remember.

Seems like a Deilephila sp. in any case. Good work!

[Remington]

I went fishing in Japan, and instead of traditional earthworms they used these little armoured buggers. I don't have pics, but they had these characteristics:

-About a inch and a half long, slightly thicker than an average worm
-Overlapping scaly plates, hard to the touch
-Tiny little bumps/legs, but they seemed vestigial and non-functional
-The underbelly had softer scales, they could be easily pierced by a hook
-When I held it by one end, it extruded another half centimeter of itself (almost like prolapsing) and tried to bite me. The orifice on the end of the prolapsed section has two tiny black fangs, similar to spider ones.


Have you heard of anything like that?

http://images.google.com/images?q=eunicid+worm&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=6WF9S7ukOMW0tgeUx9GgBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQsAQwAA

Those look anything like it?

Yep, that's it. Except they didn't have all the head-antenna.

[Kai]

The species you were using as bait was Halla okadai (Eunicidae: Polychaeta). Can't find any pictures though.

[Remington]

The species you were using as bait was Halla okadai (Eunicidae: Polychaeta). Can't find any pictures though.

Cool, thanks Kai!

[Kai]

I don't think I have any pictures of weird bugs, everything in RI is pretty common, but I was rather impressed that we have stinkbugs up here. 

In Florida, I was just used to seeing the ever-so-popular lovebug and every kind of ridiculous spider known to mankind.

Oh yeah, there's one for you, Kai, I won't look it up because, well...you know me, but we had this spider that was chillin' in our screened in pool for a while, aside from the spiny orb fuckers. This one had a shiny metallic ass. I shit you not. Very spindly, grayish in color, but with a shiny metallic ass. Any ideas?

Its a spider.  No really, do you know how big it was? When you say spindly, how long were the legs in comparison to the body? Did it have a web? There are some jumping spiders with metallic abdomens, but they don't tend to have long thin legs.