What type of bug is this?

Wireman · Jul 30, 2006

I find these once in a while either in my closet or on the bottom of a dresser draw. It is very light, just passing my hand by it will make it blow away. I think it's a shell/skin/exoskeleton that a bug left behind, I don't think there is a bug inside of it. It's very small.

Anyone know what it is??

Icebreak · Jul 30, 2006

It's probably from a moth stage. I don't know what kind it is but it doesn't look like a clothes moth. Maybe a satin moth. I don't know but I'll bet Pydpiper does.

Illum · Jul 30, 2006

a wollybear catepillar's skin....

you know, moth catapillars shed skin quite often...I've potted numerous moth and butterfly catepillairs in cups where they form a pupa on the paper lid on top, then i give these to friends...

I stopped after they started spraying for mosquitos...all we have left is spiky moth catepillars...too difficult to pot...

Wireman · Jul 30, 2006

Ok, so you guys are sure that it's only moths?

That's excellent news! A few people on another forum said it was a cockroach egg, I was ready to move out and nuke the house from orbit!

Thanks!

Illum · Jul 30, 2006

cockroach eggs are smooth, not furry

certain species laced with streaks of yellow over dark brown, about the size of a giant kidney bean....

Wireman · Jul 30, 2006

Yeah, this thing is tiny, maybe the size of the nipple of a AA battery.

Are these things harmful to my clothes? I've never noticed holes in my clothes (or moths flying around for that matter), I'm a T-shirt and jeans kinda guy so nothing valuable anyway

cyberhobo · Jul 30, 2006

Juvenile Silverfish?

Illum · Jul 30, 2006

Wireman said:
Yeah, this thing is tiny, maybe the size of the nipple of a AA battery.

:thinking:

sure its not lint?

Wireman · Jul 30, 2006

Maybe it's a little bit bigger than the nipple of a AA, ut not much. It's definitely some type of bug.

IsaacHayes · Jul 30, 2006

parasitic flesh boring bed bug? j/k

D@rk Messenger · Jul 30, 2006

It's the shedding of a larva carpet beetle.

Wireman · Jul 30, 2006

D@rk Messenger said:
It's the shedding of a larva carpet beetle.

That seems to be the closest match as far as Google image search.

TedTheLed · Jul 30, 2006

a louse?

chesterqw · Jul 31, 2006

louse are smaller then the nipple*starts to giggle a lil* of an AA cell.

scott.cr · Jul 31, 2006

IsaacHayes said:
parasitic flesh boring bed bug? j/k

Yeah dude, thanks for making my skin crawl.

JanCPF · Jul 31, 2006

Wireman said:
I was ready to move out and nuke the house from orbit!

:lolsign: Did you get that qoute from "Aliens" or did you just make it up?

Wireman · Jul 31, 2006

JanCPF said:
:lolsign: Did you get that qoute from "Aliens" or did you just make it up?

I got it from some firearm forum that got it from the movie Alien.

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