Glacial Erratics

Aliens In My Home

March 08, 2003

Can anyone identify this bug? There are also similar things that have shown up around the house that are brown and bigger. I don't know what they are either. We call him Earl.

These orange creatures are magnificent. Final image for showing scale, those are the tines of a regular fork. Click on the thumbnails for bigger pics.


If you know what it is, let me know. If you have a good name for this kin of Earl, let me know about that too.

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On March 11, 2003 02:39 AM Eric Sinclair said:

It occurs to me that Ellen may also have some ideas as to identification of Earl.

Unfortunately, I don't think I knew any entomologists back when there was a Department of Zoology at IU; some herpetologists and evolutionary paleobotanists, sure....

Now they're all geneticists, I expect. Ho Hum.

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