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What am I looking at? What are those curious long appendages sticking out everywhere? The main body is roughly 2cm in length.
Entymologist needed: Identify this glorious abomination
.. that crawled up from my sink.
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Entymologist needed: Identify this glorious abomination
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by Rumraket » Nov 12, 2018 7:21 am
So I woke up in the middle of the night because I was thirsty, go into my kitchen turn on the light and discover this (to me) never before seen species of insect crawl up from the drain.
What am I looking at? What are those curious long appendages sticking out everywhere? The main body is roughly 2cm in length.
What am I looking at? What are those curious long appendages sticking out everywhere? The main body is roughly 2cm in length.
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Re: Entymologist needed: Identify this glorious abomination
#3 by LucidFlight » Nov 12, 2018 12:46 pm
Admittedly, they are quite confronting, when seen for the first time.
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Re: Entymologist needed: Identify this glorious abomination
#4 by Cito di Pense » Nov 12, 2018 1:05 pm
What's an "entymologist'?
Somebody who's bugged by words? Somebody who studies the relations between trees?
Somebody who's bugged by words? Somebody who studies the relations between trees?
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Re: Entymologist needed: Identify this glorious abomination
#5 by Rachel Bronwyn » Nov 12, 2018 2:23 pm
You've never seen a silverfish before? Thats nuts. I thought everyone had. They eat books and bread and like moisture.
The appendages at the end of its abdomen are two cerci and a terminal filament. The cerci are sensory or copulatory, I think. The terminal filament enables them to leap and flip about. Foul little beasties.
The appendages at the end of its abdomen are two cerci and a terminal filament. The cerci are sensory or copulatory, I think. The terminal filament enables them to leap and flip about. Foul little beasties.
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Re: Entymologist needed: Identify this glorious abomination
#6 by Rumraket » Nov 12, 2018 2:38 pm
Fascinating. I don't remember having seen them before. They've never crawled out of my sink when I was around to see it.
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Re: Entymologist needed: Identify this glorious abomination
#7 by laklak » Nov 12, 2018 7:26 pm
It's a "KILL IT!"
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Re: Entymologist needed: Identify this glorious abomination
#8 by Calilasseia » Nov 12, 2018 8:34 pm
Probably Lepisma saccharina, which has been accompanying humans for thousands of years. Though in North America, you have other species to look out for that sometimes occur in human habitations.
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