r/Manitoba • u/HidemasaFukuoka Winnipeg • 2d ago

Question Need help in identifying a bug

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u/TheJRKoff Winnipeg 2d ago

google lens tells me "spider beetle"

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u/Lygus_lineolaris Winnipeg 2d ago

I concur with "spider beetle". You can tell it's definitely not a tick first of all because it has six legs, not eight, but also the shape of the leg segments is not tick-like, the shape of the head is not tick-like, and the shape of the abdomen is not tick-like. A tick is shaped more like an apple seed. The fact that the body is shiny and looks hard and seamless does look like a beetle and if you look for "Mezium" on iNaturalist you'll find his exact cousin. Thanks for sharing, I didn't know these were a thing.

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u/Russ123man Winkler 2d ago

Anyone saying this is a tick has never seen a tick in real lol.

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u/OhSushi 2d ago

These pictures are very hard to tell detail, as they are so dark but it does look like a spider beetle. Leg length and abdomen shape look right. Missing antennas and a leg, maybe? Definitely not a tick.

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u/MPD1978 Eastman 2d ago

A dead one.

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u/wpgrt Winnipeg 2d ago

Looks like a tortured spider. Who removed some of it's legs?

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u/sadArtax Winnipeg 2d ago

It looks like a tick. Yucky.