It is spring in Indiana and too early for baby snakes, however I did see a small snake outside of my front door last week. I live in the country, just a few feet from a pond. \n\nI don't know if what I am calling tenacles are actually called tenacles. I have looked a photos of snakes, worms, salamanders, and slugs today, but can't find them on most worms, although my sister says some have them. \n\nAny suggestions?
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It's an aquatic insect nymph.  Can't say just what it is without a photo.  Dragonfly nymphs are very goofy looking...
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I think there are more than just one Chupacabra, really. I know it sound a little silly, but I think there is just some creature that we just haven't really got the chance to identify and list as a species. There have many accounts of the same in places all over the world. The Chupacabra(s) Live!!
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I don't think you'll find garter snakes in the midwest.  The one you're after is the western ribbon snake
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Oh well, with that information it's easy to identy. \n\nThe  creature is Biplaium kewense. They are commonly known as "worm killers".  See the link below for some photos\n\nAs others have guessed it is a planarian. Worm killers are an exotic pest species imported from Viet Nam in the soil of potted plants. They are carnivorous and hunt earthworms and small insects. They immobilise their prey by coating them with that slime they secrete and then stick a tube into them and suck their insides out.\n\nBTW, well spotted that it uses it's head like a sensor. That is exactly what they do. There are pits under the head that act like a nose that enables the animal to track earthworms, slugs and other prey animals.
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You have got to be kidding me. I have a favorite 'prehistoric water-dwelling animal'? I believe in a young earth anyway, so they're not prehistoric. I guess maybe Leviathan.
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Ignore the people who can't seem to get past whether a question is formulated perfectly or not.  Most of the rest of us and, the world for that matter, seem to be able to understand what you are asking about.\n\nA Yahoo Image Search shows pictures of the worm (larva or caterpillar) itself.  You can get pictures of the moths using the order and family.  But they aren't the exact match.\nHipopta agavis\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-wdgt&p=Hipopta%20agavis\nlepidoptera cossidae\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=lepidoptera%20cossidae&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-wdgt&x=wrt\n\nThe Wikipedia article gives some details on the worm but, alas, no pictures.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipopta_agavis
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A worthy effort :-)\n\nI'm thinking something to do with gears / gear box?\n\nWe have worm gears in UK. I think (could be wrong) that in the US spider and dog are both types or arrangement's of gears/cogs? Probably on a cycle?\n\nWouldn't have had a clue without the additional help.
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Here is a very good site, hope this helps.\nhttp://www.coopsjokes.com/amz/amzrept.htm\nHere are some other interesting facts, I got them from watching the Discovery Channel.\n-The basilisk (or Jesus Christ) lizard has the ability to walk on water.\n-Recently a two headed albino snake was put up for sale.  Albino alligators are also known to exist.\n-Cottonmouth rattlesnakes were given their name because the insides of their mouths are white.\n-Snakes can dislocate their jaws to swallow prey whole.  I know that some species of snake can consume deer whole.
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My husband and his buddy's have a cabin they go up to in the chain of lakes that they fish for Muskie. They about every year now have pulled each others resources and go, but they have to travel by boat part of the way to get up there through, to their cabin site. I have never made to trip with them yet, and I don't even know if they would want me to. I guess the mosquito's are out of this world up there. I hope that this was helpful to you, and all I have seen are the pictures. It really looks beautiful though. One of them His friend, "Joe", caught a 69 lb Muskie once, and they put him in the magazine.
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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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There are 5 species of snake which "fly": Chrysopelea ornata, C. paradisi, C. pelias, C. rhodopleuron, and C. taprobanica, according to Robert Mertens' 1968 classification.  They are more correctly called Tree Snakes (Paradise Tree snake, Twin-Banded Tree Snake, etc.) \n\nThese snakes don't actually fly; technically they are parachuters (though some may be classified as gliders), so they can only move downwards through the air.
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Check the windows. they are getting in some where's. They maybe coming in at night and that's why you can't see them during the day. Maybe spiders are night animals....UGH\nI don't know I hate spiders too! Well at least it's a daddy long legs and not a black widow or something....
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>>>>>Is the butterfly that flutters its wings before a hurricane just a metaphor?\n\nNo, it really exists. I suggest you go out and kill the bloody thing before it causes any more hurricanes.
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Tonight, I was out with my 10 yr old and I was spraying some water on our plants. A toad came "running" out of his bush cover to sit in the spray. He was really liking it.  After a couple of minutes laughing at him, a spider crossed the walk about 4 ft away. That toad went on a beeline charge up to the spider. They sat about 4 inches apart - neither one so much as twitching. We froze and watched.  After 2 minutes, the toad pounced in! He tongue-flicked that spider and had a good meal.\nIt was a great moment to share and very educational for him. It cemented some of the things we have spoken about in the past about nature being brutal, but efficient and basically well-planned.\nGo forth and critter. \n\nIf the neighbors think you are "different" - then Thank GOODNESS. Because you are!
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Tench are mainly spring/summer fish,they tend to hibernate (if you what to call it that) in the winter. So the traditional time to fish for them was at the beginning of the old course season, but as we have not had any bad frosts  you might be o.k. Look for deeper areas of the lake and fish hard on the bottom,as said before.Ledgering will work, use a open ended feeder with a little bit of feed in and some low food value ground bait as well.You dont want to over feed the fish. Maggots,sweetcorn,casters,breadflake and worms all work.Use a feeder rod about 11/12ft with a test curve of 1,1/2lbs .As for float rod a carp type match rod will do.If the lake is snaggy lines of 5 to 8 lbs will be needed. If clear then drop b.s of line and rod to suit.Hooks size of 16 to 10 should be o.k.Just don't use to light a hook length as tench are strong and dogged fighters, they won't run far they just hug the bottom with their strong tails they can put a lot of pressure on your tackle.Best times are first and last light.If float fishing the lift method is great fun. Plum the depth first, when shotting float put (a antenna type is best)put a small shot near the hook(3 to 4ins ) and move the float up to suit.The line is now on the bottom held down by the shot.When the tench sucks in the bait it lifts the weights, the float is now under shotted and falls flat on the water,strike now.The rod must be put in a rod rest.Don't over feed as this time of year the fish are easing off due to the colder weather. hope this goes some way of helping you.Tight lines.
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could be frog, june bugs,rat,etc..
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well, it definitely sounds like an arthropod, so the place to look would be a book or website with lots of pictures of different kinds of Arthropods - crustaceans, spiders, centipedes, insects, and more, they're all in the phylum Arthropoda.  Your arthropod sounds like it's in one of the lesser known groups.