# What the hell is this bug? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 16, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612 "2008-04-16T17:29:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/1 "2008-04-16T17:29:08Z")
I cannot remember the name of this fly-it looks a mini leech, and it’s shaped like an apple seed-only even smaller? What the HELL is the name of it? ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/2 "2008-04-16T17:39:52Z")
[Monster fly leech?](http://www.fish4flies.com/img/flies/Large/T5167Bossbob's%20Hellgrammite.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/3 "2008-04-16T21:00:41Z")
Could you give us more information? Is it local to you? I don’t recall ever seeing anything like that around here. Where do you generally see it? Inside, outside, by garbage, flowers, fruit? ---
**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:** [April 16, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/4 "2008-04-16T21:05:10Z")
Some sort of [weevil](http://savebromeliads.ifas.ufl.edu/field/summaries/cornell/photos/weevil.jpg), perhaps? Your description is confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/5 "2008-04-16T23:32:11Z")
[Silverfish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish). :smack: Mods, if you want to close this-well, after I give everyone permission to comment on my stupidity. :o ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/6 "2008-04-16T23:42:03Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] [Silverfish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish). :smack: Mods, if you want to close this-well, after I give everyone permission to comment on my stupidity. :o [/QUOTE] Yea, Mods, hold up to give us a chance here! Umm, **Guin** , a silverfish isn’t a fly. It don’t have no wings you see. And, I don’t see any resemblance to a leach or apple seed either. Other than that, your description was very descriptive! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/7 "2008-04-17T02:55:30Z")
Worst insect description EVAR! ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/8 "2008-04-17T05:34:57Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] [Silverfish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish). :smack: Mods, if you want to close this-well, after I give everyone permission to comment on my stupidity. :o [/QUOTE] May I pile on? [Moran!](http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/Morans.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-this-bug/445612/9 "2008-04-17T10:55:24Z")
I think it was more that they remind me of leeches, and seem to be “tear-dropped” shape. I still feel like a “moran”, though. 😃