What the hell is the creature that I just found.

[Kevin1908]

About the size of a grain or rice and looks like a grain of rice. When it started to move I thought an even smaller ant was moving it. Something then appeared  from one end or the other and it took off like rocket. I could believe how fast it was for something the size of a grain of rice. Was in the room that the cats stay in so maybe came from outside on their fur. Looked horrible even if was tiny.

[Sparktrader]

How far did it fly?

[Kevin1908]

That is what surprised me it didnt fly. It just had this foot thing that poked out of the end. May be a rocket is an exageration but is was still fast. Took a video if I can transfer it from my phone.

[AsianAtHeart]

Sounds like a rather large specimen of a springtail, or collembola.  I could be more certain if you had a picture.  Usually they are more grayish in appearance, but they have an outer scaly surface that can be somewhat iridescent, and, depending on the lighting, might appear in other colors.

 

If it is a collembola, it's rather harmless.

 

Maybe something like this?

[simon43]

Be afraid.... be very afraid!

[Hummin]

Ticks?

[Kevin1908]

Here's the little <deleted>.

[AsianAtHeart]

1 minute ago, Kevin1908 said:

Here's the little <deleted>.

Oh, that's a casebearer.  It eats spider webs, mostly, but can sometimes eat other natural fibers (including cotton).  The grayish case surrounding the inner worm/caterpillar protects it from the spiders.

[Kevin1908]

Can actually see it a bit clearer on the video than with the naked eye. Looks like tiny catterpillar poking out.

 

[Kevin1908]

So pretty harmless except that it can eat fibres.

[AsianAtHeart]

1 minute ago, Kevin1908 said:

So pretty harmless except that it can eat fibres.

That's correct.

[Sparktrader]

41 minutes ago, Kevin1908 said:

Here's the little <deleted>.

Slow rocket

[Skeptic7]

Casebearing moth aka Plaster Bagworm. 

[Old Croc]

Case Moth cocoon.

Many threads about them on the forum over the years. Harmless, just sweep them off the walls and toss outside. Eventually there will be no more.

[2baht]

Evacuate!

[CharlieH]

When I saw the title, I thought this was gonna be another bargirl story ! ????

[thailand49]

These are deadly if bitten but eaten with some chop garlic 

Delicious!

[1FinickyOne]

1 hour ago, 2baht said:

Evacuate!

Coffee, stomach rumbling, time to evacuate indeed. 

[Catoni]

9 hours ago, Kevin1908 said:

Here's the little <deleted>.

Oh…. I got body shivers and my blood pressure went up when I saw this creature.  

[AhFarangJa]

We were infested with these a year or so ago, Googled it and got common bagmoth. As another poster said just throw them outside, eventually they have all but disappeared. 

[jak2002003]

It's got a little sleeping bag...perhaps it's going camping? 

[Troy Tempest]

10 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Slow rocket

It's an "Artemis Rocket Bug"!....

 

We had these in our house a while ago and knowing how much Thais love eating Critters I thought of collecting them and selling them at the local market....But, when I mentioned my idea to a Thai friend he said, "That will never take off"

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artemis-moon-launch-delayed-tropical-storm-ian-strengthens/

[Mentors65]

Harmless, shows up during rainy season with high humidity.

Eats food, spider webs, dust even dead insects, ants.

Makes a cocoon with dust, hair, cotton and spider webs incl. sand for protection.

moving around mostly at night, hangig on walls etc.

Ugly beasts! 

 

[toofarnorth]

5 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Casebearing moth aka Plaster Bagworm. 

Not Plaster Bagworm again , first appeared in Mad Max 2.

[vandeventer]

3 hours ago, thailand49 said:

These are deadly if bitten but eaten with some chop garlic 

Delicious!

You know it could be the cheap plastic rice that China uses as a filler?

[tandor]

13 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Slow rocket

one of Kims!

[Old Croc]

On 9/26/2022 at 8:16 AM, Catoni said:

Oh…. I got body shivers and my blood pressure went up when I saw this creature.  

A tiny insect on the wall does this to you?

A couple of weeks ago while sitting on a chair watching tv I found a 7-inch centipede climbing up my thigh about to head inside my shorts. That's scary.

 

My FIL spent last night at our place sleeping on a mattress on the floor. In the early hours of this morning all were awoken by his shouts as he had a similar one crawling on his face. Transpired it had stung him on the calf. Have to listen to his moans and groans this morning.

 

[AsianAtHeart]

3 hours ago, Old Croc said:

A tiny insect on the wall does this to you?

A couple of weeks ago while sitting on a chair watching tv I found a 7-inch centipede climbing up my thigh about to head inside my shorts. That's scary.

 

My FIL spent last night at our place sleeping on a mattress on the floor. In the early hours of this morning all were awoken by his shouts as he had a similar one crawling on his face. Transpired it had stung him on the calf. Have to listen to his moans and groans this morning.

 

Sorry about your stings.  I used to fear centipedes and want to kill them, too, before I learned how good they are.  Now I catch and release them in the garden.  Centipedes will eat snails, and snails definitely need more predators!

[Catoni]

16 hours ago, AsianAtHeart said:

Sorry about your stings.  I used to fear centipedes and want to kill them, too, before I learned how good they are.  Now I catch and release them in the garden.  Centipedes will eat snails, and snails definitely need more predators!

If they are just common house centipedes, we ignore them. They eat the bad bugs we don’t want around. 
   But their large cousins….no… don’t want them. They can bite/sting.  House centipedes are rarely able to puncture our skin. 

[Bluetongue]

On 9/27/2022 at 12:31 PM, Old Croc said:

A tiny insect on the wall does this to you?

A couple of weeks ago while sitting on a chair watching tv I found a 7-inch centipede climbing up my thigh about to head inside my shorts. That's scary.

 

My FIL spent last night at our place sleeping on a mattress on the floor. In the early hours of this morning all were awoken by his shouts as he had a similar one crawling on his face. Transpired it had stung him on the calf. Have to listen to his moans and groans this morning.

 

Got stung by one of these a few years back. Can attest that it was extremely painful and has never really healed, second toe, I started a thread on it