“Do these little critters look like Mud Worms to you?” asks Janet in North Carolina about the dark worms pictured below. “They appear in the end of my tub after I water the aloe plant that’s just above the tub. They are no longer than a lightning bug and as thin as a toothpick, if not thinner. I’m not sure what the yellow is in the second picture. None of this was in/on the tub last night. Maybe the worm fairy left them. Thank you for your help!” To begin with, we want to address Janet’s first question. No, these do not look like mud worms at all. We are not sure if she had something else in mind when she suggested this identification, because mud worms are aquatic bristle worms, and are covered in the bristles that identify them as such a worm. They also have two long ‘palps’, which are coiled appendages that extend from their head which they use to collect food. They look nothing like the worms Janet found.