Identify this unknown insect

• Fire Star

  8 Apr 07, 09:33

  
  
  
  It has six legs, 2 feelers or antenna, black head, bright red body, but black legs cannot fly nor jump, confirm not spider. Size of ant, but cannot be ant. Walk like spider but not spider.
• AndrewPKYap

  8 Apr 07, 09:37

  
• Ito_^

  8 Apr 07, 10:20

  its radioactive.
  
  if it bites u, u become ant-man!
• Conner MacDermott

  8 Apr 07, 10:22

  I suspect you encountered a Myrmecia Desertorum, aka Bulldog Ant.
  
  http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4187/1246/1600/myr.0.jpg
• sand king

  8 Apr 07, 10:28

  Red means danger right? dont touch it!
• Fire Star

  8 Apr 07, 10:32

  Originally posted by Conner MacDermott:
  I suspect you encountered a [b]Myrmecia Desertorum, aka Bulldog Ant.
  
  http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4187/1246/1600/myr.0.jpg[/b]

  No, the pic of bulldog ant is definitely different from what I encounter. It dosen't look like ant, it can't climb vertically well. It's legs are too long to be an ant.
  
  Btw, anyone know what solution I can preserve it in after it dies? It may be a new species of insectoid...
• Fire Star

  8 Apr 07, 10:34

  Also it's body is really bright red in sunlight, not dull red like red ants. I assure you if you see it first hand, you confirm say it's not ant.
• Fire Star

  8 Apr 07, 10:49

  
  
• ditzy

  8 Apr 07, 12:15

  Alright alright, its not an ant, just an insect that looks like an ant.
• toyota-corolla

  8 Apr 07, 12:18

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Alright alright, its not an ant, just an insect that looks like an ant.

  
• PointBlue

  8 Apr 07, 12:23

  It's a giraffe
  
  
• erijazz

  8 Apr 07, 12:49

  It may be from the same family of assassin bugs;
  
  
  
  Facts
  Nearly 3000 species of assassin bugs exist and scientists feel that many more will be discovered. These insects can be commonly found throughout most of the world. They vary in size from a few millimeters to as much as 3 or 4 centimeters. They come in many colors and shapes and most species have two pairs of wings. However, ALL assassin bugs have a powerful, curved rostrum, or beak, that they use to pierce and suck out the tissues of their prey.
• pervertboi

  8 Apr 07, 12:52

  i guess the mossy fugged the queen ant.....
• erijazz

  8 Apr 07, 12:55

  Originally posted by pervertboi:

  i guess the mossy fugged the queen ant.....

  Obviously u nv see a queen ant before...
• pervertboi

  8 Apr 07, 12:56

  Originally posted by erijazz:

  Obviously u nv see a queen ant before...

  ok...
• Conner MacDermott

  8 Apr 07, 15:39

  Any taxonomist here? Can help?
• WiNtEr'SkiLL

  8 Apr 07, 15:41

  interesting..!!
• the Bear

  8 Apr 07, 15:47

  e'jazz identified it already... it's an assassin bug
• OasisBlue

  8 Apr 07, 15:59

  maybe its a new species of assassin bug
• Keii

  8 Apr 07, 16:01

  i get wierd insects flying into my flat lotsa times. if you guys are bug enthusiasts... then i'll take peektures?
• crabx

  8 Apr 07, 18:08

  where did u find this ant? inside house or gardne?
• wonderamazement

  8 Apr 07, 18:09

  Originally posted by PointBlue:

  It's a giraffe