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SOLVED! Help me identify this bug (as in insect)

DalbozDalboz Resident Puppy EaterRight behind you...Registered User regular
edited March 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I've occasionally seen this bug on the walls of my apartment. Not often, but I've seen a few over the years. They're really weird, and as far as I can tell very slow moving, crawling up the walls and such, but I don't know what they are. Any ideas?
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  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Where do you live? Deserty?

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  • DalbozDalboz Resident Puppy Eater Right behind you...Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Along the Pacific coast. Southern California.

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  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Also is that block of material moving with it? Hard to tell.

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    wow..that is crazy looking..if nobody can help you here, i would try

    http://bugguide.net/

    they have a place where you can submit your ID requests

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  • DalbozDalboz Resident Puppy Eater Right behind you...Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    bowen wrote: »
    Also is that block of material moving with it? Hard to tell.

    If you mean the big grey thing that almost looks like some kind of cocoon, then yes, it is moving with it. As far as I can tell, it may be part of the bug. Although, like I said, it seems to be extremely slow moving.

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  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    It honestly looks like the ass end of a wasp. You'll probably have better luck on the websites with an entomologist on hand.

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  • Richard_DastardlyRichard_Dastardly Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Have you touched the shell thing? It looks like a casing of tiny pebbles and dirt... how the hell does that thing move?

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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    it looks like a caddisfly or stonefly larvae. do you live by a body of water? if so, thats probably it.

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  • Rotting MeatRotting Meat Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I can't see the image here at work, so I'll have to check when I get home. But going by the vague descriptions...

    Is it similar to this? Hemip%20Reduviidae%20nymph%20p5&6%20p18%207.25.01%20n19.jpg

    These secrete sticky substances that will attract dust/lint to them and give them a 'grey coccoon' appearance as part of a camoflage mechanism.

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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i got it, its the larvae of a household casebearer or plaster bagworm moth.

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  • DalbozDalboz Resident Puppy Eater Right behind you...Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    i got it, its the larvae of a household casebearer or plaster bagworm moth.

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    Hmmm. Interesting, but this does indeed look like it. Thanks! This can be locked now.

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