Can anyone identify this insect?

ZippyDee

I found this on the back of one of the kitchen chairs in my parents house. The fluffy bit was about the size of a euro coin and the wormy bit was much longer. It appeared to be climbing out of the fluffy thing but kept popping back in. Anyone have any idea?

Alun

Hmmm, weird! Was the 'fluffy bit' actually moving? I only ask because the 'wormy bit' looks a bit like a maggot to me, and I'm wondering whether the fluffy bit is just a mouldy / dusty dead insect / bug of some sort that the maggot is eating from the inside.

Oink

Looks to me like something coming out of a cocoon?

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Mothman

I think the wormy bit/maggot is a caterpillar. A lot of them have dark heads with fairly translucent bodies.

And if so, it may be constructing its cocoon in which it'll pupate.

Kess73

Possibly one from the Winter moth/November Moth/December moth groups?

If memory serves I think at least one of those have caterpillars that go almost translucent before entering the pupal stage of their life cycle. Pretty sure the all have flight times that would tie in with entering the pupal stage at this time of year.

Moths would not really be my strong point though and would be open to correction on some/all of what I have just said.:)

swifts need our help!

I see similar things in the shed where an item has been left in one place for a long time. Micro moth caterpillar of some sort

thebishop

swifts need our help! wrote: »

I see similar things in the shed where an item has been left in one place for a long time. Micro moth caterpillar of some sort

I think the ones you find in the shed are prob what are known as the common cloths moth.Tineola bisselliella.

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