What's a strange creature I saw, with tail like lobster and claws like scorpion. it was moving slowly on grass
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I was going to say pseudo-scorpion, a very common arachnid related to scorpions and spiders, but with no tail stinger, but then I saw the size in your details.\n\nThe only critter I can think of in North America that could possibly be that large is one of the types of crayfish.\n\nHere is a site with some pretty good crayfish pictures: http://www.shrimpcrabsandcrayfish.co.uk/Shrimp.htm?crayfishamerica.html~mainFrame\n\nIf you were in more tropical climes, I would guess that it might be some form of crab, such as a land crab or robber crab.
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You may be referring to a Jerusalem cricket, more commonly known as a potato bug.  These insects aren't really crickets and don't eat potatoes, but who says names have to make sense?\n\nNext time, give us a general idea of where you live.  It'll help narrow down the possibilities of what you're looking at.
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If it's really small, it may be a pseudoscorpion.\n\nHere's a pic: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ar_1.jpg
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maybe it's a chigger a red chigger. they usually live in wooded areas but maybe you picked it op outside somewhere.
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You don't mention where it was found so that makes ID difficult; sounds like a Scolopendra. Look through these pics to see if you find a match. Some are poisonous; some are not.\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=+%22scolopendra%22+centipede&btnG=Search
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Probably a komodo dragon or crocodile. Most people don't know what a komodo dragon is so I have included a link with some pictures.
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I was right! It's a FLICKER !\n\nIt's a kind of woodpecker, also known as the yellowhammer.\n\nThat was really a good description.\n\nI guessed flicker, then I checked out your pic!\n\nCOOL!\n\n;-)
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The "angel bug" name is probably a local thing. They could be whiteflies or woolly aphids.\nCheck out some pics:\nhttp://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Sternorrhyncha.html
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Crabs... the kind you get down there, are tiny.  Not visible to the eye.  You probably had a bug on you and it scrambled across you nether region.  \n\nIf you had crabs down there you would know it for sure.  You would be itching like a Motherfu**er.
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It sounds as though it is most likely the highly luminous Click beetle (Family Elateridae) Pyrophorus noctilucus, as several others have already mentioned.\n\nThis beetle, sometimes also called the Fire Beetle, has two bioluminescent patches on its pronotum, behind the head, that look somewhat like glowing eyes or headlights.  Allegedly they can be bright enough to read by.\n\nPyrophorus noctilucus is native to Central and South America, so it is not outside the realm of possibility that one could show up in South Florida.\n\nInterestingly enough, this critter in giant form is the basis of one of the classic Dungeons & Dragons critters, the Fire Beetle, found in the original Monster Manual.  (OK, maybe that's not that interesting unless you are as geeky as I am).
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That sounds like the mantis shrimp.  It's not a crab, but it isn't really a shrimp either.  Shrimp and lobsters belong to the order decapoda.  Mantis shrimp belong to the order stromopoda.\n\nThey have two club-like apendages in front of their legs.  The power of the appendage can produce a blow close to the power of a .22 caliber bullet.  They use this club for self defense, fighting rival mantis shrimp and cracking open hard shells of its prey such as crabs and mollusks.
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Tonight, I was out with my 10 yr old and I was spraying some water on our plants. A toad came "running" out of his bush cover to sit in the spray. He was really liking it.  After a couple of minutes laughing at him, a spider crossed the walk about 4 ft away. That toad went on a beeline charge up to the spider. They sat about 4 inches apart - neither one so much as twitching. We froze and watched.  After 2 minutes, the toad pounced in! He tongue-flicked that spider and had a good meal.\nIt was a great moment to share and very educational for him. It cemented some of the things we have spoken about in the past about nature being brutal, but efficient and basically well-planned.\nGo forth and critter. \n\nIf the neighbors think you are "different" - then Thank GOODNESS. Because you are!
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i am not sure i have only been in MO for a few months but i have seen them in Mississippi Oh wait I saw some road kill the other day i think it may have been an armadillo there were scales but they werent doing very much protecting
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That sounds like a Monarch Butterfly catapillar. They feed on milk weed and migrate between Canada and Mexico.
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I think one recent cave discovery was in Algeria I think, or somewhere in Africa.  In the cave, they found a new species, whick looks like a spider,scorpion, and probably a cricket, i forgot the last one.  Anyway, that was one of the recent cave discoveries.
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Contact this guy, "the Bug Man".  You can send him a description of the bug--even better, send him a photo.  He'll let you know what he thinks it is.
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Yes, scorpions are arachnids.  The claws are not\nlegs, they are the second pair of appendages,\nwhich are called pedipalps.  The first pair of\nappendages, the chelicerae, function as jaws.  They are fairly small and inconspicuous, but can\nusually be seen when the scorpion is feeding.\nThe remaining four pairs of appendages on the\nanterior body region are legs.  On the underside\nof the abdomen is another pair of appendages\ncalled pectines or combs, which are sensory\norgans.