What is this thing? @lemmy.world Bronohomo @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

[Solved] what is this

I live in Arizona. These have been coming out in the evening. They are 1-2” long and looking like really skinny earthworms. I took it to the local pest supply store and they had never seen anything like it.

Update: my pest control company had never seen anything like it. They sent some examples to ASU to identify. Turns out they are a type of millipede. Very uncommon in this region.

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Did you pick it up, OP? Is it scaly or slimy? If it's scaly, it may be a Western Threadsnake. If it's slimy it's some variety of earthworm.
- I haven’t picked one up…they are freaking me out. They are about the same diameter as the old iPhone corded earphones…very tiny.
I hope someone will chime in who’s more knowledgeable but, yeah, it looks like an earthworm to me. Just…longer? Not a sewage worm, by chance?

This site may help you match it: https://www.trees.com/gardening-and-landscaping/types-of-earthworms
- At first that’s what I thought…I found tubifex worms image online and thought that was it. I’ve also have a recording of one moving…it kinda glides like it has a lot of legs…but it’s so tiny, I can’t tell if it has legs.
  
  Is it "gliding " in a wavy pattern, or in a straight line?
  
  A wavy pattern, where it glides like that makes me think it's a threadsnake
Looks to me like a juvenile Texas Blind Snake. I'm no reptile expert though, can't tell for sure

https://www.reptilefact.com/texas-blind-snake.html
Yo! I from Phoenix. I lived by some mountains and we'd get baby snakes randomly for a few weeks at a time throughout the year. They look a lot like skinny worms and could range in color from pinkish to dark brown. As to what type of snakes they were, I have no idea.
give it a name.
Horsehair worms?

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