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05-11-2009, 06:11 PM
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| |  Identify white body, black head which pops out both ends of pinl hard tube
What the bejesus is THIS ??!!??  Found half-way up a wall in my dining room. It's a little pinkish tube - out of which a little fellow with a white body and black head pops out of BOTH ends  ! Never seen anything like this before.
Have I entered into a 1950s sci-fi film...? |
05-11-2009, 06:17 PM
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05-11-2009, 06:23 PM
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| | | Re: Identify white body, black head which pops out both ends of pinl hard tube
walk away slowly. Am sure it's the same thing that I saw on Dr Who a few years ago. |
05-11-2009, 06:28 PM
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| | | Re: Identify white body, black head which pops out both ends of pinl hard tube
It's a terrestrial caddis larva - Trichoptera. I forget the name. I think there was a thread on here some time ago ..... sorry, see if my memory returns after dinner .... or someone else will know for sure! Nice little thing  |
05-11-2009, 06:29 PM
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| | | Re: Identify white body, black head which pops out both ends of pinl hard tube
I could well be wrong here as I claim very little knowledge of micro moths (I'm a macro lass!), but I reckon it could be a case moth larva of some description. Species of several families do this including the Psychidae and Incurvariidae, plus possibly others (I'm not sure) |
05-11-2009, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott  It's a terrestrial caddis larva - Trichoptera. I forget the name. I think there was a thread on here some time ago ..... sorry, see if my memory returns after dinner .... or someone else will know for sure! Nice little thing | Doh! Never mind - ignore my first post!  |
05-11-2009, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Jenny W Doh! Never mind - ignore my first post! | Not necessarily - I know even less about Trichoptera than I do Lepidoptera .... we shall see!  |
05-11-2009, 09:57 PM
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| | | Re: Identify white body, black head which pops out both ends of pinl hard tube
Do you have a wool or wool-mix carpet? If you have, it's been eating it.
There are more of them, lots more.
Round the edges of the room, next to the wall; round the legs of your furniture, under anything that sits flat on the floor, however heavy... Case Bearing Clothes Moth |
05-11-2009, 10:04 PM
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| | | Re: Identify white body, black head which pops out both ends of pinl hard tube
Ooer! Never knew there was a 'land' type of caddis larva .. I've seen the aquatic ones .. (probably the best place for them, horrible looking things!)
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06-11-2009, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by jeremiah Do you have a wool or wool-mix carpet? If you have, it's been eating it.
There are more of them, lots more.
Round the edges of the room, next to the wall; round the legs of your furniture, under anything that sits flat on the floor, however heavy... Case Bearing Clothes Moth | I DO... a wool-mix... So it's a moth...blighter. Lots more you say...that's not good news. I don't mind sharing, just be nice if they helped with the rent...
Am off to Carpet Right for a nylon carpet.
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