face hugger invasion! PLZ! help identify this thing

Bear*rack Olama

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So like my wife was playing with the puppy this morning and it found this on the floor up under the edge of a table....
I dont know if its from a plant or animal and have NEVER seen anything like it in all my days...
First check was to make sure it was dead and not gonna bite my ass then I started checking it out...

there are 8 appendages coming off of it and it seems that each one looks like it has segments...there are lines on each little leg/appendage going horizontally across it...

The one @ what seems to be the rear of the thing is really long compared to the others. The 2 next to that one are really short, and then the rest of them are about the same length except what seems to be the one on the front. Its about equal length as the 2 small ones near the tail.

8 appendages total...

The bottom looks as if something has been broken off of it to me. it also looks about the texture of the inside of a chestnut shell.... There are small bumps on the bottom and about 6 of them...right where the outside leg looking things would be attached, but there isnt one for the pointy thing @ the front or the one one what I assumed to be the rear...

the thing is covered in a small amount of soft fuzz that looks like short little hairs... I scraped away a small potion of that with my knife and there is a hard part under it...About the same hardness as the leg lookin thingies...


I immediately thought that it was something from a plant of some various kind but on further inspection it appears that it was alive @ one time as an insect maybe... Its DEFIANTLY no kind of spider...


I can see only one main segment that the spiny things are attached to....
I tried to break one of the appendages off and I cant. As nor can I CUT them off with a knife...

has anyone ever seen anything like this or know what it is? Im gonna look around on the web a bit more and then stop back in here to see if anyone knows any info on what this thing is...

I cant have anything messing with my plants and certainly not my family...
 

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lopezri

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Ooooh, that is nasty looking. Can you put a dime or something near it and then take a pic so we can get and idea of size? I'd also maybe see if you can take it to a local university science department or something to see if they can figure it out.
 

Bear*rack Olama

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I live In NC in the bum fuck sticks of no where... there are no cacti around my house....How could it be a cactus spike?

For size reference, its about the length of a AA battery...Not quite that wide but almost..
 

Charfizcool

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LOL really...I doubt that thing was ever alive. How the fuck could it even walk with its "legs" sticking out in random directions? I vote Cactus spike. :mrgreen:
 

natrone23

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yeah its either a catus spike or some sort of hitchhiker seed (things that stick to your socks after walking through weeds0
 
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