Ants or what can it be?

Judaline · ‎03-10-2010

A new one on me! These look like a little stick you'd pick up on the floor. VERY little. Black. I picked one up yesterday and threw him in the commode. Wow!. The stick turned into an ant or something. All of a sudden his legs or feet came out on each side and he was swimming! I'd say they are about as big as an exclamtion mark. ! Until they released their legs on each side~~so yucky. Thankfully, it's not an infestation. I just see one or two a day. Would like to know what the heck they are. Google didn't do me any good.

Sunshine Kate · ‎03-10-2010

@Judaline wrote:
A new one on me! These look like a little stick you'd pick up on the floor. VERY little. Black. I picked one up yesterday and threw him in the commode. Wow!. The stick turned into an ant or something. All of a sudden his legs or feet came out on each side and he was swimming! I'd say they are about as big as an exclamtion mark. ! Until they released their legs on each side~~so yucky. Thankfully, it's not an infestation. I just see one or two a day. Would like to know what the heck they are. Google didn't do me any good.

Could it be a centepede? They have tiny legs on each side.

manny2 · ‎05-24-2010

I found this, mantis nymphs. They resemble tiny twigs or bits of dried grass. @Judaline

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

Praying Mantis Nymph

♥Surface of the Sun♥

Tissyanne · ‎12-07-2012

@Judaline , might be an earwig.. They are thin and black. They have legs, but you don't see them when they are moving along.

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

EARWIG

♥Surface of the Sun♥

SloopJohnB · ‎04-25-2020

@Tissyanne wrote:
@Judaline , might be an earwig.. They are thin and black. They have legs, but you don't see them when they are moving along.

@Tissyanne Totally off topic but I had to laugh about earwig. When one of my kids was small, he would describe one of his balding teachers having an earwig. 👴

I would give everything I own just to have you back again.......David Gates of Bread