Help identifying icky thing!

[telophase]

Last night, as I was getting ready for bed, I tossed the clothes I'd washed off the bed and back into the laundry basket (my habit is to upend the laundry basket on the bed, so that I have to put them away before I can go to bed. Naturally, what usually happens is that I put them back into the laundry basket before I go to bed).

I spotted what looked like a coffee bean on the sheet. Picking it up, it felt plastic and examining it, I thought it was a small plastic capsule with a row of metal (copper) teeth on one side. I checked my earphones to see if they were missing anything that looked like it, and found nothing.

So I took it in to Toby. He got his Swiss army knife and looked at it with the magnifying glass and said it looked organic to him. Ick! And when he accidentally cracked it, it had a clear water-like fluid inside. Double ick!

And then I grabbed my camera and took pictures so I could blow them up. Triple ick! And Toby dissected it a little ... quadruple ick!

Of course, we stripped the sheets off the bed and changed them (they had to be changed anyway) and I examined my clothes suspiciously this morning, finding nothing. Our best guess is that whatever it was got picked up from the garage on the laundry basket when I set it down and fell on the bed when I upended it.

Anyway, here's the photos. Anyone have any clue about it? badnoodles? Bueller?



Well, maybe more icky to us than you, since it was IN OUR BED, BUT STILL.





You can see the scale of it here, more or less.

Comments

[fridgepunk]

When maggots or larvae of other insect species reach their teenage moments between their carefree meat devouring days as maggots and their future life as horrible buzzing fruit devouring monster with wings, they encase themselves in a protective cacoon much like that. Inside the cocoon the maggots basically liquify and rearrange themselves into the adult body plan. So I'd imagine you just murdered an insect teenager. can't specify more accurately what kind of insect though, sorry.

[telophase]

On LJ it's been IDed as a cockroach egg case *shudder*.

The exterminator has been called.

[fridgepunk]

YOU KILLEDED A BABBY! Cockroach pro-lifers will surely picket your skirting boards now. Any idea what species of cockroach it is?

[telophase]

I believe we killded MANNY MANNY BABBIES! The cockroach pro-lifers can picket all they want, as we will shortly be spraying the skirting boards with POISON!!!!

I think the basic common cockroach? The larger one with a darker carapace that we've seen members of here? There's two species normally seen around here - the big, dark one and the smaller, lighter-colored one, but if I go look their names up I'm going to ick myself out again because IN OUR BED.

[lnhammer]

That's my ID as well.

---L.