I was at my Mystery Bug Headquarters, when I got an urgent call. It was my Aunt Sandee. I heard screaming in the background, "There is a savage bug attacking my daughter in the bathroom!" she said.
"Capture it! Bring it here immediately!" I said.
That evening we held a meeting in her parents' house. She described a clawed, voracious, eight- legged terror hiding in the bathtub. I asked to see the specimen (I was still curious about the size of this monster.) She handed me the iron box (aka Tupperware) in which it was kept and told me to use the most extreme caution. With shaking hands I opened the package.
............. Inside......
was ......
a....
quarter inch long bug with minuscule pincers and tiny legs? I gave my aunt a "this is your monster bug" kind of look, and said "I'll take the case" and decided to call it a night.
I couldn't sleep that night. I kept thinking I had seen something like it in one of my many reference books. In the morning I got out my textbooks and found a match.
It was known as a Pseudoscorpion. After a quick bit of computer work we sent some pictures and the name to my client, Aunt Sandee. So the case was solved.
Signing off,
Jesse Maretzki, Bug Identifier
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