# ID this bug, please.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bug-please/267747>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 5, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bug-please/267747 "2004-10-05T22:38:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bug-please/267747/1 "2004-10-05T22:38:32Z")

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I’ve found several of these in my kitchen. The biggest one we found last week.

Black, worm shaped, segmented with lighter color where the segments bend. Maybe a 16th of an inch in diameter. Usually short (less than a half inch) but the latest was more than an inch and curled into a loose spiral.

I usually find them stuck to the sides of bottles we keep on the counter. The big one was on our knife block.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bug-please/267747/2 "2004-10-05T23:02:07Z")

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You didn’t mention if they had any legs, but they sound like url=“[http://www.offwell.free-online.co.uk/forest2/FOLDER01/millipede\_No1.jpg](http://www.offwell.free-online.co.uk/forest2/FOLDER01/millipede_No1.jpg)”]millipedes to me

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bug-please/267747/3 "2004-10-05T23:03:09Z")

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rassin’ frassin’ [Link](http://www.offwell.free-online.co.uk/forest2/FOLDER01/millipede_No1.jpg)

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**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bug-please/267747/4 "2004-10-05T23:11:40Z")

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Possivly a millipede. [This site](http://www.offwell.free-online.co.uk/forest2/FOLDER01/HTML/INDEX.HTM) has several photos. Basic info [here](http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/surveyreports/may-jun95/milli.html).

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**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bug-please/267747/5 "2004-10-05T23:50:43Z")

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That’s it. Didn’t get close enough to ascertain legs, but that’s the little bugger.

They’re probably growing in our window plants (which are dead) so I’ll throw those out.

Thanks!