“What is this yellow, boxy, stretchy, little snake-like thing?” asks Catherine in her submission regarding the organism pictured below. “I found it hanging from the dashboard of my truck in Seattle. At first I thought it was a rubber band, but on closer inspection I came to realize it had a sort of mouth looking opening on the end and was spotted with specks. It is unlike anything I had seen before. It has no bones, so not a snake. It lost the yellow color it had while submerged in water. Found in Seattle, Washington. Thank you.” To start with, we thank Catherine for the photo she sent in: you can really see the “boxy” nature of the creature’s body, by which we think Catherine means that it seems to be somewhat flat, giving it a clear underside and topside, unlike most worms.

“I found these larva-like creatures in the bottom of my linen closet, where I found beetles coming from an enclosed space where it is difficult to get to clean”, writes Jeanna in her submission regarding the black, speckled beetle pictured below. “These beetles have brown larva, so I know it’s not their larvae. Besides, one of these worms is much longer than the others, leading me to believe they are not larvae at all but perhaps worms or some other creature. They are tiny. I couldn’t see them with my naked eye; they just looked like dust balls. But when I took a picture with my phone camera and magnified it, these worm-like creatures appeared. They are cream-colored, with a black spot on one end that seems to be a head or eyes. There are different lengths of them here. I found more of them in other locations in my house, in varying humidity levels: at the base of the toilet, behind my sofa, on the baseboard of the hallway, on the rug in my bedroom, behind the washing machine, etc. What do you think they are?”