Sorry, I didn’t get a picture. Yesterday I saw something strange - hanging from a string of I suppose silk (from an eave) was a long thin worm-looking creature, gyrating its front end around a bit. I assumed it was something making a chrysalis for itself, except that (and it was quite a bit above me, so hard to tell) it seemed very like a slug. Its front end was sluglike in that bifurcated way. It was perhaps a bit shorter than my index finger but quite slender, and didn’t appear to be furry. It was dark in color.
Then suddenly it fell down, but we couldn’t find it in the grass to get a better look at it. This was in South Carolina. Any ideas?
Slugs do perform mucus bungee sex, but the OPs description also possibly fits some kind of caterpillar - many species drop and hang from silken threads to evade predators - and there are caterpillars that have false antennae or whips that give them a slug-like appearance. Not familiar with the OPs local fauna though, so I can’t propose any candidate species.
It didn’t seem to have any legs, either, by the way. (For added weirdness, this was when I was washing windows on the gorilla side of the gorilla enclosure at the zoo. I don’t believe it was gorilla related, though.)
Well, and evidently worms hanging from the roof. And rabbits live in there, on their own recognizance. The occasional squirrel. And zoo volunteers when we’re cleaning the windows.
(The gorillas are still in their backups when we do that.)