Today's Unwelcome Visitor

[Tywais]

A rather large collection of insect photos of Thailand can be seen here > http://www.thaibugs.com/thaibugs.htm

Haven't found your bug yet Jai Dee but I suspect you are seeing 6 legs and 2 antennae since only arachnids have 8 legs. Or else you live near one of Thailand's reactors.

[bat69]

Jai Dees insect looks like some kind of cricket

[canuckamuck]

Jai Dee:

That's a whiptail scorpion, it can pinch you with it's pincers, but it is harmless. It sprays acid out it's whiptail to discourage enemies.

I always seem them around my house.

Just put it back in the garden, it eats other bugs.

[Jai Dee]

Thanks for that canuckamuck.

You got to admit Tywais that those two front antennae do look a lot like legs hey?

[canuckamuck]

Thanks for that canuckamuck.

You got to admit Tywais that those two front antennae do look a lot like legs hey?

Scorpions are classed arachnida like spiders, they sometimes they have eight legs sometimes six and no antenae. This guy has eight legs.

[qwertz]

Quote elkangorito

An easy & safe way to remove ticks - cover the tick with a large piece of cotton wool, which has been soaked in a vegetable oil or baby oil. Use sticking plaster to hold the cotton wool in place over/on the tick. Re-apply oil to keep wool soaked (every hour or so). After a few hours, the tick will dislodge itself because it can no longer breath through its body.

Thanks for that, EK.

The doctors never mentioned it.

BTW, I'm not dead yet, it must have been an inexperienced young tick.