Worm hole

On August 13, 2007 · 29 Comments · In Living

This evening I was sum­moned to the guest bath­room by Naomi, and when I got there, she said, “I said, bring the cam­era”, so I said, “oh”, and went to look for the cam­era and went back to the guest bath­room, and only then did it occur to me to ask, “why you want cam­era for?”

Naomi pointed at a bath­room tile, and it was a good thing I saw the thing before I formed the thought that maybe she had wanted me to take a pic­ture of the tile so we can go to a tile shop and com­pare tile designs because we do that kind of thing very often you know?

The ‘thing’ was some­thing that was wrig­gling par­tially out of a 1cm long cocoon-like thing, so it was def­i­nitely some kind of worm or lar­vae, but we weren’t sure if the cocoon-like thing was part of it or whether it had picked the scrap up from the rot­ted wood at the base of the bath­room door (yes, we live in quite an old place). So, we did what Naomi thought best to do — observe it and flimm it with the camera.

So we flimmed it wrig­gling out of one open­ing on one end of the cocoon-like thing, then it went back inside and wrig­gled a lit­tle out of the other end. It looked a bit inde­ci­sive like that, but then, it’s a worm or a lar­vae so you can excuse it for being in two minds even though you can’t really say they have minds.

It even­tu­ally wrig­gled its way to a cranny in the door frame and it looked like it had aban­doned it’s armour and wrig­gled off. So I picked up the cocoon-like thing for us to exam­ine it a lit­tle closer, only for the worm/larvae to pop out one end again, caus­ing Naomi to scream and scare the bejeezus out of me, caus­ing me to drop the cocoon-like thing and its occu­pant onto the bath­room shelf, where it wrig­gled long enough for us to flimm it some more.


The thing

But all thoughts of tak­ing a closer look and find­ing out exactly what the worm/larvae and its cocoon-like cocoon were washed down, lit­er­ally, when worm/larvae, cocoon and all tum­bled down the sink, when the pilot worm/larvae wrig­gled off the shelf.

Because of that D’oh! moment, we’re won­der­ing if any of you can tell us what the hell the thing and its cocoon are. Or was.


Last moments of the thing

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  • jo

    It’s a house­hold case­bearer a.k.a. plas­ter bag­worm (Phere­oeca uterella; Lep­i­doptera: Tinei­dae), usu­ally found in cor­ners and crevices where they feed on old spi­der webs. It does have a more sin­is­ter cousin that looks almost iden­ti­cal, the clothes moth lar­vae, that feeds on ani­mal by-products such as wool and furs (adopt­ing its cas­ing colour from what­ever its feed­ing on, is only open ended on one side, and rarely wrig­gles around as much as your lit­tle guy).

    Has every­one fallen asleep read­ing the above para­graph yet?

  • jo

    It’s a house­hold case­bearer a.k.a. plas­ter bag­worm (Phere­oeca uterella; Lep­i­doptera: Tinei­dae), usu­ally found in cor­ners and crevices where they feed on old spi­der webs. It does have a more sin­is­ter cousin that looks almost iden­ti­cal, the clothes moth lar­vae, that feeds on ani­mal by-products such as wool and furs (adopt­ing its cas­ing colour from what­ever its feed­ing on, is only open ended on one side, and rarely wrig­gles around as much as your lit­tle guy).

    Has every­one fallen asleep read­ing the above para­graph yet?

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Thank you. I dare say that was faster than Yahoo! Answers.

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Thank you. I dare say that was faster than Yahoo! Answers.

  • Benny

    Hi, have you heard any­thing about a mis­sile defense test today? This morn­ing (~9:45) I heard a roar and watched four jet clouds (con­trails) fly over NTU headed south­east. Three were in par­al­lel and a smaller one was in between two of them. Even­tu­ally the fourth one caught up and smoke from all four dis­ap­peared. There’s also been a lot of fighter air­craft activ­ity up here and they usu­ally do that on over­cast days instead of clear days like today. A mis­sile defense test is a big deal isn’t it? ie when the N. Kore­ans do it every­one freaks out etc.

    Just curi­ous if you know where I can ask around to see if any­one else knows any­thing. I sent email to chan­nel news asia but I really didn’t expect a response

  • Benny

    Hi, have you heard any­thing about a mis­sile defense test today? This morn­ing (~9:45) I heard a roar and watched four jet clouds (con­trails) fly over NTU headed south­east. Three were in par­al­lel and a smaller one was in between two of them. Even­tu­ally the fourth one caught up and smoke from all four dis­ap­peared. There’s also been a lot of fighter air­craft activ­ity up here and they usu­ally do that on over­cast days instead of clear days like today. A mis­sile defense test is a big deal isn’t it? ie when the N. Kore­ans do it every­one freaks out etc.

    Just curi­ous if you know where I can ask around to see if any­one else knows any­thing. I sent email to chan­nel news asia but I really didn’t expect a response

  • Waver­ley

    Hey, I get them in my bath­room too! And I’ve been won­der­ing what they were.

    If you check the cor­ners, like behind water pipes, you’ll see the bunch of them “hang­ing around” and chill­ing … yucks!

  • Waver­ley

    Hey, I get them in my bath­room too! And I’ve been won­der­ing what they were.

    If you check the cor­ners, like behind water pipes, you’ll see the bunch of them “hang­ing around” and chill­ing … yucks!

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  • Susan S.

    Thank you! I had one of those also and couldn’t fig­ure out how to research it online. It had bet­ter be one of those because I am a knit­ter and if it were a yarn eat­ing moth lar­vae, I would have escorted it outside!!

  • Susan S.

    Thank you! I had one of those also and couldn’t fig­ure out how to research it online. It had bet­ter be one of those because I am a knit­ter and if it were a yarn eat­ing moth lar­vae, I would have escorted it outside!!

  • http://zulee.wordpress.com zu

    yeh. great info. But it came a lil’ too late. I’ve got those in my rented room back when i was in JB. Damn things wrig­gle like its nobody’s busi­ness. LOADS of em!

  • http://zulee.wordpress.com zu

    yeh. great info. But it came a lil’ too late. I’ve got those in my rented room back when i was in JB. Damn things wrig­gle like its nobody’s busi­ness. LOADS of em!

  • http://www.goodforyou.com.sg Health Nut

    So GROSS!!!!!!!!

    I can’t believe you know such things Jo …

  • http://www.goodforyou.com.sg Health Nut

    So GROSS!!!!!!!!

    I can’t believe you know such things Jo …

  • SOAPY

    MOSQUITO LARVAE!!!!

    DENGUE!!!!

    Da da daaaaaaaa *cue men­ac­ing music*

    *tsk tsk* You should have squashed it with a bed­room slipper.

  • SOAPY

    MOSQUITO LARVAE!!!!

    DENGUE!!!!

    Da da daaaaaaaa *cue men­ac­ing music*

    *tsk tsk* You should have squashed it with a bed­room slipper.

  • Tessa

    look like it’s from the movie Evolution

  • Tessa

    look like it’s from the movie Evolution

  • http://dilutedmagnetics.blogspot.com lunch is served

    Finally… after years of won­der­ing, I know what these creepy crit­ters are. I’ve found some shell with the lar­vae gone — ie, the shell of the nymph stage left stuck to the open­ing of the shell. The full grown insect looks like sil­ver fish. Equally creepy. I flush all shells I find down the toi­let :P

  • http://dilutedmagnetics.blogspot.com lunch is served

    Finally… after years of won­der­ing, I know what these creepy crit­ters are. I’ve found some shell with the lar­vae gone — ie, the shell of the nymph stage left stuck to the open­ing of the shell. The full grown insect looks like sil­ver fish. Equally creepy. I flush all shells I find down the toi­let :P

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  • Yanie

    I found these worms since 2 months ago. It’s so hor­ri­ble!!! Can you share how could you clean your envi­ron­ment pls?
    Thx

  • http://www.miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Vac­uum and mop reg­u­larly, I guess. Try vac­u­um­ing the lit­tle crevices
    in the walls.

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  • elmobugs

    AAHHHH! i just caused swamped by them — they are every­where! my bath­room, floor­board near my bed, on my wall…

    heard they’re feed­ing on cob-webs — so get clean!

  • elmobugs

    AAHHHH! i just caused swamped by them — they are every­where! my bath­room, floor­board near my bed, on my wall…

    heard they’re feed­ing on cob-webs — so get clean!

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