An Outing last week with some bug experts or entomologists produced a sighting of an unusual beast. Bet you didn't think there were Scorpions in Scotland. Well you are right but we did uncover a false scorpion or pseudoscorpion. Just the same body plan but, fortunate for us, rather tiny, perhaps2-3 millimetres long.
They live in undergrowth, leaf litter and the like and they are predators, tacking prey larger than them selves sometimes. The first picture opposite shows it dominated by a twenty pence piece. The lower picture has greater magnification
Something new is usually exciting as this was.
They live in undergrowth, leaf litter and the like and they are predators, tacking prey larger than them selves sometimes. The first picture opposite shows it dominated by a twenty pence piece. The lower picture has greater magnification
Something new is usually exciting as this was.
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