Its not a bird..Please come and help me identify this weird insect I found running around my floor...

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There were six of them and I have no idea what they are! They also came from behind a HUGE cupboard so am a bit nervous of what to do.

The look like a cross between a silverfish and an earwig. No funny c at the end like an earwig and dark brown so not a silverfish. They also look a bit like ladybird larvae, but are quick movers with lots of legs...

Did it look like This?

it'll be a bug

cockroach?

nope sleepy, and its defo not a cockroach. think like a caterpillar but fast at running around and not squidgy in the same way.

bump!!

it looks like this

If it has those pincer things on the end of it, I'd say it's an earwig.

I hate earwigs

I think you could mean carpet beetle larvae
here

oh just clicked on the link and did all sorts of shuddering bleurghs....poor you!

wider. They aren't that large! Tree its not an earwig! LWC its almost like that without a hairy bum. Maybe a different sort of carpet beetle as we have had some here and they are speckly, not shiny and brown like your piccie. . Still very yuk though!

Oh God. How awful. Waaaaaay outside my comfort zone I'm afraid. Shiny brown and/or speckly is where I bow out.

Throw various chemicals in cupboard and make dh deal with it

RUN!

GRAB YOUR CHILDERN AND RUN!!!!!!!!!!!

DH says it is definately a caterpillar, not sure what he knows though! Looks like a moth caterpillar rather than a butterfly one though. Put it in a tank with some leaves and see if it wraps itself up in a cocoon.

Yeah cocoon or EATS YOU....

If I ever found anything in my house wrapped in a cocoon, I would become part of nuclear arms race.

It all stems from backpacking in Peru and going to the loo is a very cheap hostel in the dark.

I learnt to ALWAYS put the light on and give the critters 30 seconds to hide. Noone wants to see that on their toothbrush.

tree you and kinnies have me sniggering into my wine . Whatever you do, don't visit the pest control canada site. They have it all on there! yeeuch. Better stop reading it now or I won't be able to eat my supper!

I had to look. It was like crash tv, just had too.

Am alarmed by orb web weaving spiders, and completely overwhelmed by the beetle the size of a finger.

And the spider body would have me leaving for colder climates. Or looking on ebay for nuclear weapons of mass insect destruction.

Dear Lord.

fantastic. thanks. am going to have go and have a look now, aren't I?

Yup

yuk. yuk. yuk.

Centipede/ milipede?

house centipedes?

Look at those!!! Look at it stalking that spider!!!!

Argh!!!

That there is some kinda 'pede. It looks 'pedey ish.

Carpet beetle ?