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Need help identifying a bug I found in my house (don't have a picture) (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I'm cleaning out my girlfriend's mom's old room, and it's... a horrible mess, to put it gently.

Anyway I saw this tiny little, cylindrical thing... it looked like a clothing fiber or something. It was like a centimeter long, and less than a millimeter wide. I never would have though it was alive, until I saw a tiny, white colored head poke out and move it very very slightly. It was like... bright cyan colored, with a deeper purple, really colorful little guy. I didn't see any legs.

We put it outside, without getting a picture, and now I'm wondering what it was.

Any idea what it could've been? We're in the northern Midwest of the US if that helps.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like some kind of larvae, moth or sawfly or something.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

The cylindrical thing is likely a casing, and the insect inside is maybe a grub/larvae, maybe of a species chickentendrils suggested below.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

until I saw a tiny, white colored head poke out and move it very very slightly. It was like... bright cyan colored, with a deeper purple, really colorful little guy. I didn't see any legs.

Like this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Naw, it was WAY smaller than this, and not fuzzy.