I stepped on a roach and didn't kill it instantly.  A few minutes later, next to the dying roach was a hair-like worm-looking thing wiggling frantically, about 3" long.  It took about 3 or 4 stomps to immobilize the roach at first, so I know that it was the only critter there initially, definitely no 3" worm there.  I was busy painting a vacant house, so I walked past these 2 critters several more times. Eventually they both apparently died.  What the heck was that wormy thing???
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It's impossible to identify the worm from that description.  There are a number of options.\n\nHowever, my best guess is that it is a horsehair worm.  Horsehair worms are rather fascinating creatures, possibly responsible for inspiring the film "Alien".  Adult worms live in water where they lay their eggs.  The eggs hatch into larvae, who make their way to an appropriate place to be eaten!  Once an insect (usually a grasshopper or a relative, such as cockroaches) eats them, they crawl out of it's digestive system and live in it's abdomen, growing every larger.  When they become adults, they secrete a chemical, causing the insect to get very thirsty.  It rushes to the nearest body of water, where the horsehair worm tears it's way out of the insects stomach and into the water, where it looks for another horsehair worm so it can start the whole process over again.
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no, because fish have gills (breathe on the outside) unlike us we have lungs in the inside.  In my aquarium tank I have a small mouth Bass & Yellow Perch, when i feed my bass minnows he would have three minnows in it's mouth (minnows literally sticking out it's mouth)/ my perch as well.  They will swim around with half a minnow sticking out it's mouth and act like it's no big deal.  You will see this with bluegill they will take the worm and swim around with it hanging out it's mouth.  I just feed my fish (thanks for reminding me) and I took pictures so if you want to see them just e-mail and I'll send it to you.  \n-About the dead smaller fish stuck in it's throat some fish I catch may puke up fish due to exhaustion.  When i go fishing for walleyes and northern pike I've had them cough up fish on me.  I've had bass do the same.  \n-Death? He could have died due to foul hooking (not meaning snagging) but if it hook in the middle or back of the throat can kill any fish especially if it's kept out of the water to long, just cut the line and release.  It doesn't work out all the time.
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I think the insect you are describing is what is known as the house centipede. They are incredibly fast little buggers, and can give you a good startle if you run into one unexpectedly. They are common in many types of houses and feed on smaller insects, sometimes even bed bugs, carpet beetles, clothes moths and young cockroaches, so they are typically more beneficial than detrimental....\nhere is a photo:\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/5590\n\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/74226
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Maybe you should move somewhere where you don't have roaches.\n\nGravity. Their backs are heavier.
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So much to say...  There is a good possibility that these worms are not coming from a person using the shower, but live in or around the shower themselves.  Unless you are using your shower as a toilet, intestinal worms shouldn't show up in the shower.  There is a group of insects called drain flies that specialize in shower and sink drains.  They are harmless and should go away if you keep your drains clean.  They look like small dark sort of fuzzy worms with dark head capsules.  The adults are small, light grey with broad wings that end in a point. They are very fuzzy and are sometimes called moth flies.  I think they're cute.  Here's a link to a picture of an adult: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ento.psu.edu/ImageGallery/HouseMisc/Thumbs/Drain-fly03%2520Psychoda%2520lar117.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ento.psu.edu/ImageGallery/HouseMisc-2.htm&h=47&w=112&sz=4&tbnid=TMswDgiCpWjSLM:&tbnh=33&tbnw=81&hl=en&ei=ZiSMRPrzHI-SaeODwZMK&sig2=fHNR_-1ZtGtltcYvlFMWFA&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddrain%2Bfly%2Blarva*%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parelaphostrongylus_tenuis\n\nMorphology\n\nRoundworms are triploblastic protostomes with a complete digestive system. Roundworms have no circulatory or respiratory systems so they use diffusion to breathe and for circulation of substances around their body. They are thin and are round in cross section, though they are actually bilaterally symmetric. Nematodes are one of the simplest animal groups to have a complete digestive system, with a separate orifice for food intake and waste excretion, a pattern followed by all subsequent, more complex animals. The body cavity is a pseudocoel (persistent blastula), which lacks the muscles of coelomate animals used to force food down the digestive tract. Nematodes thus depend on internal/external pressures and body movement to move food through their digestive tracts. The mouth is often surrounded by various flaps or projections used in feeding and sensation. The portion of the body past the anus or cloaca is called the "tail." The epidermis secretes a layered cuticle made of keratin that protects the body from drying out, from digestive juices, or from other harsh environments, as well as in some forms sporting projections such as cilia that aid in locomotion. Although this cuticle allows movement and shape changes via a hydrostatic skeletal system, it is very inelastic so does not allow the volume of the worm to increase. Therefore, as the worm grows, it has to moult and form new cuticles. The cuticles don't allow volume to increase so as to keep hydrostatic pressure inside the organism very high. For this reason, the roundworms do not possess circular muscles (just longitudinal ones) as they're not required. This hydrostatic pressure is the reason the roundworms are round.\nMost free-living nematodes are microscopic, though a few parasitic forms can grow to several meters in length. There are no circular muscles, so the body can only undulate from side to side. Contact with solid objects is necessary for locomotion; its thrashing motions vary from mostly to completely ineffective at swimming.\nRoundworms generally eat bacteria, algae, fungi and protozoans, although some are filter feeders. Excretion is through a separate excretory pore.\nReproduction is usually sexual. Males are usually smaller than females (often very much smaller) and often have a characteristically bent tail for holding the female for copulation. During copulation, one or more chitinized spicules move out of the cloaca and are inserted into genital pore of the female. Amoeboid sperm crawl along the spicule into the female worm.\nEggs may be embryonated or unembryonated when passed by the female, meaning that their fertilized eggs may not yet be developed. In free-living roundworms, the eggs hatch into larva, which eventually grow into adults; in parasitic roundworms, the life cycle is often much more complicated.\nRoundworms have a simple nervous system, with a main nerve cord running along the ventral side. Sensory structures at the anterior end are called amphids, while sensory structures at the posterior end are called phasmids.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode\n\n\nHope that helps!
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We were out "camping" in a trailer... My cousin and I spent the whole day fixing it up and making it look nice for the next day when the family would arrive.. Late that night we were fixing something underneath the "sink" and we heard a rustling.. so we were looking around all the cabinets to see what it was.. I opened up the fridge and this HUGE flying squirrell came rushing out and it smacked into my cousin and got caught in the curtains...   it took us 4 hours to get the poor 'lil guy back outside... Then he kept trying to get back in, finally he got the idea and ran off to wherever.
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I came across this site when I was looking for insect and spider links.  This guy seemed really involved with Tarantulas.\n\nI am glad that you are concerned about giving your pet a good home.
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Boric Acid\nYou can mix it with sugar for best results.\n\nMake sure no kids or pets contact it.\n\nIt has nothing to do with food/water, explaine aunt hills.  I have seen them with no food or water in sight.  Maby you are thinking of roaches.
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Weeeeellllll......... what I did for MY problem was send him an e-mail that basically said: I like worms! Worms are crazy! I was crazy once! They locked me in a rubber room! I was cold, cold like the ground. Hey, worms live in the ground!  I like worms! Worms are crazy! I was crazy once! They locked me in a rubber room! I was cold, cold like the ground. Hey, worms live in the ground! I like worms! Worms are crazy! I was crazy once! They locked me in a rubber room! I was cold, cold like the ground. Hey, worms live in the ground! and so on...... that should work! hE hasn't e-mailed back yet!!!!
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Check for gnawing and/or droppings.  You usually don't have a mouse without little droppings, and they chew constantly.\n\nInstead of using a spring mouse trap -- and please don't consider a glue board, they are crueler than poison -- why not try a trap where you can release your visitor (if you have one) outside, away from your home?\n\nhttp://www.themousedepot.com/\n\n2/22 If you have an indoor pet you should not use poison of any kind, even though most rodent baits you buy will not kill a dog or cat if a pet eats them (at least, that's what the packets state).\n\nDo you live in the South?  Or an old residence?  Roaches can be extremely loud, and they are active at night.
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Yeah, was pretty surprised at that myself...\n\nAlso thought it was quite funny with the ants that went mad and their little mates carry them as far away from the other ants as possible....then some weird fungi pushes through their brain....very very odd!
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A couple of reasons:\nRoaches cannot flip themselves back onto thier stomach once they flipped onto thier back, and so a flipped roach will eventually die. This is because in nature roaches would live on surfaces that are not as smooth as the kitchen floor, and will have some kind of bumps in the ground that could help them flip back. \nSecond reason is that pestocides contain nerve poisen, and when the roach is poisened, it will have muscle spasms, that will cause it to flip. \nBy the way, roaches die of pestocides because they are actually clean creatures. The pestocide will stick to thier feet, and they will lick it off and that's how they get poisened.
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A Furbie, actually three of them, from my Uncle.  I was 19 when he gave them to me.  I was like WTF are THOSE things?  They were cute until he put the batteries in them.  After a half an hour they were no longer cute but annoying and I was ready to kill them.  Eventually they all had 'accidents' including the one that caught fire.  It really wasn't on purpose that they were bad or wrong, my Uncle hasn't ever seen me as 'grown up' and I get some weird stuff from him all the time.
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Anything having to do with cockroaches. I am 6' 220lbs and I will run cockroach faster than you can say "there he goes"...\n\nMy family finds it hystericle to this big guy running to higher ground.
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T-rex sized clown.  Because a Tyrannosaur is about the size of a small *house*, meaning it wouldn't fully *fit* in the room.  :)  Meaning a) the big honking clown couldn't move enough to keep me from kicking him repeatedly in the gonads until he shuts up, and b) that assumes anything else--including myself--could even fit in the room with him, meaning the odds of my being trapped in there with him (and still alive) are fairly slim (and at that point, if he crushes me dead, then it's *his turn* to be scared of my flattened carcass).\n\nBy comparison, a clown-sized dinosaur would be like having a crocodile in the house, only faster.  :(  No thanks, I think being crushed like a cockroach under a huge clown shoe would be the quicker, more merciful death.  :)\n\nJust saying.
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Wow.  This is really gross, but it sounds like burrowing worm.  That just happened to my cat recently.  It didn't look like a wound, just a hole.  I'd have that checked.