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Unidentified Insect

I'm thinking it is a juvenile house centipede. I've found quite a few in our bathroom upstairs, all of which now inhabit Terrarium 2. We'll see how they grow.
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Comment from: Susannah [Visitor] · http://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com
It looks a lot like a carpet beetle larva. (Do you keep a laundry basket in the bathroom? Check it for more, or for the dried molts.)
If so, it should do well in your Terrarium; they're tough little characters. I've had one in a jar for months. I haven't fed it; it's housed with just a scrap of feather and wool. I just checked it now for the first time this year. Doing fine.
I wouldn't want one to escape, though.
I have several blog posts about the beetles; here's a decent photo, though the long hairs on the tail are almost invisible: http://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2009/10/shameful-failure-at-hospitality.html
Or plug "carpet beetle" into the search box on my blog; I have quite a few posts about them.
If so, it should do well in your Terrarium; they're tough little characters. I've had one in a jar for months. I haven't fed it; it's housed with just a scrap of feather and wool. I just checked it now for the first time this year. Doing fine.
I wouldn't want one to escape, though.
I have several blog posts about the beetles; here's a decent photo, though the long hairs on the tail are almost invisible: http://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2009/10/shameful-failure-at-hospitality.html
Or plug "carpet beetle" into the search box on my blog; I have quite a few posts about them.
03/02/10 @ 02:47
Comment from: Bill [Member]
Thanks; that is our guy alright. I have noticed some of the adults dead on our window sills, so the invasion now makes some sense.
Unlike the house centipedes, I suppose this is one critter I should not try to live in harmony with.
Unlike the house centipedes, I suppose this is one critter I should not try to live in harmony with.
03/02/10 @ 08:06