# What the hell did I photograph? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 3, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-photograph/917145 "2020-08-03T07:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-photograph/917145/1 "2020-08-03T07:48:16Z")
I’m currently working on sorting and categorizing 20 years worth of digital photos, and there are of course some photos in there I have no memory of taking. This is one. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/BZxL2ds.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/dkHJt4u) That is obviously some sort of animal droppings, but I can’t figure out what those hollow segmented tubes are, even to the level of being parts of a plant or an animal. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-photograph/917145/2 "2020-08-03T08:20:37Z")
Pellet from an insect-eating bird? I don’t know about the tube things, but they look insectoid, and the grayish thing near the bottom-left-of-center of the dropping looks like something in the woodlouse family (roly-poly, etc.). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-photograph/917145/3 "2020-08-03T08:24:45Z")
The pillbug is, I believe, a living one having a snack. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-photograph/917145/4 "2020-08-03T08:32:22Z")
Fair enough. Still–the tube things look like mealworm segments to me (or similar larvae). So it would not surprise me if it were a pellet from a bird that had a large meal of them. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-photograph/917145/5 "2020-08-03T11:03:50Z")
They are millipede shell parts. Any idea _where_ that was taken? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-photograph/917145/6 "2020-08-03T11:36:27Z")
Yeah, had to have been on my property in South Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-photograph/917145/7 "2020-08-03T12:32:27Z")
I was going to guess mealworm, but looking, I see you are right.