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Old 05-21-2022, 08:12 AM
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Awoke to find this bug crawling across sunroom floor. Whitish color with a black appendage on either end. At first, I thought it might be a leaf but then noticed it move.

My wife suggested it might be something like a silverfish larva (something to do with the heavy rain). In any event, it has joined the great outdoors.
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Old 05-21-2022, 09:36 AM
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Awoke to find this bug crawling across sunroom floor. Whitish color with a black appendage on either end. At first, I thought it might be a leaf but then noticed it move.

My wife suggested it might be something like a silverfish larva (something to do with the heavy rain). In any event, it has joined the great outdoors.
It looks like a cocoon of some sort with an insect inside?
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Old 05-21-2022, 09:46 AM
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It looks like a cocoon of some sort with an insect inside?
There definitely is a retractable appendage on both ends. I inspected the white part with a magnifying glass a seem to detect multiple appendages on the bottom. It definitely was moving across the floor on its own accord.
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Old 05-21-2022, 10:02 AM
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Resembles a bag worm but hard to tell from pic. Worm cocoons it’s self in vegetation and attaches to plant with one end with other end open to worm head for feeding.
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