Please identify: strange egg-sac-like 'bug' clinging to walls?

Question

I've found lots of these legless, bodiless creatures all over the house in recent months. They attach themselves to walls and don't seem to be mobile... (except, how did they get so high up on the wall in the first place?) They are shaped thusly: (please excuse my lack of m.s. paint skills) http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u180/tabemon0/wallbug.jpg
They are approximately 1.5 cm in length and have a single black tentacle-like appendage exiting one end of the sac that can be retracted/protracted when the creature is disturbed. When I dissected it, I found that its insides were filled with black, hair-like fibers.
Could anyone help me identify this strange creature, or give me some clues (i.e. phylum or class) that would assist in identification? This mystery has been bothering me for months! Thanks in advance. :)

Answer 1

Without a photo, I am shooting in the dark a little, but it seems to me that what you have is probably a moth (order Lepidoptera) cocoon. They are very fibrous and occasionally fix themselves to walls before emerging as adult moths in the spring. Cocoons are the pupal stage of moths and are formed in the late fall. They have a very limited capability for movement, as you discovered. The key thing is that you claimed it was full of black fiber. Moth larvae live off of clothing (look up the phrase 'moth-eaten'). You might want to check your sock drawer to see if you have holey socks!

Answer 2

My guess would be a bagworm moth.



The caterpillars make cases for themselves out of dust, sand, bark fragments and the like, to protect themselves from predators and for camouflage.



In the fall, they climb up to sheltered locations to pupate and spend the winter. This often brings them inside houses and even far up the outsides of buildings.



They are totally harmless, eating mostly detritus and fungus as larvae - perhaps nibbling a few holes in the marigold leaves. They don't eat human food or get into clothing or anything.



Here's a picture of one to compare:



http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bclepetal/Photographs%20&%20Other%20images/Lepidoptera%2075dpi/dahlica_triquetrella_bymarshall.jpg

Answer 3

Do they run like loopy in case you go close to them? Roaches constantly are available 2's. and that they sound like roaches to me. that is with the aid of fact the place of residing is new and sparkling that they are there. they have in all probability been disturbed whilst the construction grow to be being outfitted/refurbished and that they are in a position to cover exceptionally plenty everywhere. There are quite a few strategies of removing them one way is a sticky roach capture - yuk! you may purchase Bagon - as we do right here in Asia - you in basic terms could spray a line around the entrances and exits (no longer your nutrition cabinets) roaches run in and head for the skirting boards and that i've got seen huge ones disapper down the tiniest of cracks. Get a pesticide business corporation in to spray for you or get a cat. - yet no longer a cat like mine that's unquestionably ineffective. If she sees a roach (they fly around would time) she jumps 5 ft into the air then almost factors to the kitchen cabinet for me to get the Bagon out. ha ha

Answer 4

EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!! U DISSECTED IT!?!??! YUCKEY!!!! and no sry, i have no idea what ur talking about.



try looking up a bug expert in the internet and e-mailing him