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Segmented Brown Worm on Kitchen Counter is a Superworm

“I found this small worm on the kitchen counter”, writes Joseph in his submission regarding the brown, segmented, worm-like creature pictured below. “It’s possible it came from a box that was brought up from the basement. It moves slowly, has a couple of pairs of legs near the head, and reacts very fast if you touch it. I live in Connecticut.” Based on the excellent photo Joseph sent us (for which we thank him), we would say that the critter he found is a darkling beetle larva. The most ‘popular’ darkling beetle larva is the mealworm, which we thought this could be at first (and which it might still be), but there are actually many species of darkling beetles, and this could be one of them.