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I have never seen any thing like this im sure some one here has. it is a white body with pink orange legs. here are the best pics i could get. What is it? is is bad? i found it chilling on my frog spawn just hanging out. thanks for the help.
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Did you kill it already? It might be easier to ID if it was in water. Maybe a plastic cup with a little salt water.
 
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yes looks like a tic. its legs glow under atinic leds its weird and creepy looking. looks like a crab has 8 legs. i thought it was a zoa spider but none of the pics look like it at all. It was alive on my frogspawn i used tongs to get the frog spawn to close up. the frogspawn started closing on the mystery pest and it started to crawl out that is when i grabbed it and took pics. my grabbing it killed it. here are more pics. really stumped to what this is.
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Yup it does its strange like a crab but no pinchers

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Could be a pod of some type, nasty buggers, are the eyes on stalks or on the head itself, it just doesn't seem to have the right shape for a crab.
 

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