WTF is this?

monquixote

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/monquixote/IMAG0639_zpshz2bwds5.jpg

Was in my bath this morning, it was massive, about 2 inches long. 

Never seen whatever the hell it was before. 

Any ideas?

lloyd

A big earwig?

not_the_dj

This?

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

http://6legs2many.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/webspinner-embioptera-winged-male-adult-close-up.jpg

Paul_C

earwig?

VimFuego

vanguard of an alien invasion army.

guitarfishbay

lloyd said:

A big earwig?

That's not a big earwig, this is a big earwig.

monquixote

It wasn't an earwig it was about two inches long!

monquixote

not_the_dj said:

This?

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

http://6legs2many.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/webspinner-embioptera-winged-male-adult-close-up.jpg

Hmm might be one of them. 

Are they native to this country?

not_the_dj

monquixote said:

Are they native to this country?

No idea, I just did a google image search based on your photo and that looked promising.

Very civil of you to take the tap end btw.

lloyd

@guitarfishbay is that you Mick?

guitarfishbay

lloyd said:

@guitarfishbay is that you Mick?

I forgot to post my picture in Phil's selfie at work thread. 

frankus

It's a Devil's Coach Horse isn't it?

monquixote

frankus said:

It's a Devil's Coach Horse isn't it?

I think we have a winner. 

The wife mentioned that it was acting like a scorpion which is what the description on Wikipedia says so I think that's what it was.

xHymnal

guitarfishbay said:

lloyd said:

A big earwig?

That's not a big earwig, this is a big earwig.

Or a very tiny hand

guitarfishbay

Hymnal said:

guitarfishbay said:

lloyd said:

A big earwig?

That's not a big earwig, this is a big earwig.

Or a very tiny hand

More disturbingly, they're reading their newspaper upside down.

axisus

frankus said:

It's a Devil's Coach Horse isn't it?

Yeah, I've seen loads of them in my life. I guess you don't get them around your way much.

ICBM

monquixote said:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/monquixote/IMAG0639_zpshz2bwds5.jpg

Was in my bath this morning, it was massive, about 2 inches long. 

Never seen whatever the hell it was before. 

Any ideas?

I think it might be a Cleg, in which case it needs to be got rid of at the first opportunity.

monquixote

axisus said:

frankus said:

It's a Devil's Coach Horse isn't it?

Yeah, I've seen loads of them in my life. I guess you don't get them around your way much.

No, we mostly get Billywitches and Stag Beetles in Suffolk.

Phil_aka_Pip

I think it's an earwig that made his way over from living within irradiation distance of Sizewell.

Sambostar

Some sort of paper wasp or queen?

mike_l

get it to bite you, see if you get superpowers