So I found this bug crawling around near my kitchen sink. There were two others, but not any sort of swarm. I think they're some sort of insect larva, as they don't have a bunch of legs like a millipede or woodlouse, but I have no idea what kind. There also seem to be several shed shells nearby, if that helps.  As for location this is in the upper Midwest.  Here's the top of the thing, with screwdriver for scale    And here's the underside.
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What kind of insect can this be? This appears to be just a shell after an insect went through a metamorphosis process.
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At least I believe it's a chrysalis. I found it hanging from my gate the other day.  I'm in Western Arkansas:
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I found a dozen of these small trees in a local park that is just an overgrown homestead.  The leaves look something like an elder but the flower clusters surrounded by white, four petaled false flowers are completely unknown to me. What species is this?     Location:  Shenandoah valley in central Virginia, U.S.A.   Sandy soil on inside of a sharp curve of the South River, just above the flood plain.  This area has been occupied by people, for a couple hundred years,  so this could very well be a cultivated plant.
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Well, a friend of mine sent me this picture of an creepy insect. I'm wondering if the picture is photoshoped or if it is real. It is said the insect lives in Indonesia, but I'm not sure.    Can anyone identify this? Thanks.
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As you can see at the bottom of the anvil are a little bit more shape down there, I am sorry I forget what you call them, but if some one could help me and get rid of them, that would be nice.
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I found this insect inside of my shoe. It is approximately 1cm in length and less than half a centimetre wide. It was found in the Netherlands, in the province Gelderland.   Close shot     Distant shot    Upside down     What kind of insect is that?   Edit:   As @fileunderwater suggested: the question is "close" but not identical. I think that the suggested duplicate will only provide an identification of the family of the insect, but nothing more precise and specific. Therefore, the answers for the 2 questions vary.
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I found a few of these walking in the middle of the night (about 3 AM) on a wall in my room near the floor. They are at most a few millimetres long (no more than 2 I would say). I am living in Poland, in a block of flats.  EDIT:  Since I first wrote, I have seen few more - very small - less then 1 millimetre long. They seemed to be coming from behind the baseboard. This time I've seen them during daytime.
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I want to get a new stove and when I pulled out the old stove I found the gas line within a hole in the wall and the gas line had a metal bar on its side. I am thinking this bar is a gas valve but I am not sure I haven't seen a pic of a gas valve that looks like this on the internet. Also when I tried to move it it seems to jiggle a little but I couldn't get it to move. Has anyone seen this before and can let me know if it is the gas valve and how I can get it unstuck to move it to turn off the gas?
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There is a tornado like swirl on my map. It has dust clouds lighting coming from it. It is in a random spot next to a poke stop. Nothing is popping up in that circle. It is not attached to me like it looks like in the picture. My brother has Pokémon Go and it is not showing up on his.  What does this tornado indicate?
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I have seen these on my hands recently and I am wondering what they are. Urban Setting. South Central Pennsylvania.
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This plant was found growing in Germany. I have never seen it before, reverse Google image search did not help either. Can you help me identify what type of plant this is?      Thanks, looks like it is something like this:    Related question:
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I found these "things" by chance on my wild strawberries which I grow in my organic garden. Basically, some strawberries are completely covered with them.    They're transparent, they have dots equally aligned and they don't move. I've tried searching for transparent slugs and worms and also faeces but to no avail.
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I heard of this in high school, but never learned its title or author- supposedly the aforementioned worm butterfly would have played a part in evolution that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs (instead of that meteor most people blame now). This story might even have been parodied on a certain Simpsons Halloween Special (the one where Homer accidentally makes a time machine trying to fix the toaster).
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I dug a large room to specifications, 3 blocks tall and 16 blocks wide as well as long. I dug it at 10 levels above bedrock, in a location {(-240, 0) -> (-224, 16)} specified by  slime finder app. I am definitely more than 24 blocks away and less than 32 away from the spawn room, as specified by the wiki .  Yet, no slimes. I have been sitting in my location patiently listening for the moist slapping sounds of slime. I have gone in to the room every time I heard a phantom slap but still nothing.  Am I just being dumb somehow or do the minecraft lords just hate me?  If it helps/anyone cares here's my seed: 6405460532872068998
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We have recently moved home, and all is fine appart from a mystery smell which I'm unable to track down. It's driving me crazy (actually, my wife thinks I am crazy as she can't smell it).  I'm hoping someone on here could offer some tips on how to track it down, or what it might be.  Here's some info:  Background: The house is a two floor (plus basement) block/concrete construction.  There is a wide hallway on the groundfloor connecting the rooms (including kitchen, toilet/shower room, stairwell).  The stairs are wood-board on concrete.  The floor in the hall and kitchen  is tiles over concrete, the rest woodblock/parquet over concrete.  Location of the smell: I usually smell it when coming down the stairs, seems to be strongest about half way down.  However sometimes it doesn't smell on the stairs at all, but rather in the ground floor hallway.  Seems to move around quite a lot. Occasionally I have felt it upstairs, but assume this is it drifting. The basement smells fine.  The Smell: The best description of the smell I can give is something like old rubbish.  What I've investigated so far:  1) Something died somewhere?  This was my initial thought, and since I usually notice the smell on the stairs I thought I'd try there first.  I've taken up some of the wood on the stairs (not all yet) but not looking promising, as there really isn't much space between the wood boards and the concrete.  Not really sure where else something could have gotten, as everything seems to be tight against the concrete.  2) Smell from kitchen moving into rest of house? I never really detected a bad smell in the kitchen, but thought I'd rule it out anyway. I thought maybe it was the bin under the kitchen sink that might be causing it.  So I moved the bin to a small storage room at the back of the kitchen (and kept the door closed) and thoroughly cleaned inside the cupboard under the sink. No change.  I also looked behind all of the cabinets for a problem, but could not see anything.  3) Gas from drains? The sink doesn't smell in the kitchen, and it's got a P-bend trap on the pipe - so I can't see a problem there.  Cant detect a smell from the plugholes in the bathroom either.  The bathroom sink waste pipe has a bottle-trap on it.   Don't know if there is a trap on the shower as it's a sealed unit, but I'm guessing yes (and can't smell anything).  Can any one think of something I might have missed, or give any advice?
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Guys I need to find out what this is- it's also on my wooden bed racks
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In Frank Herbert's Dune books, the planet Arrakis has an interesting and well thought-out alien ecology. As summarised in , the sandworms eat sandplankton (which consists, at least in part, of larval sandworms), while the sandplankton eat the spice, which is produced by side-effects of the sandworm life cycle.  However, one thing has always bothered me about this: where does the energy come from? On Earth, most ecosystems are powered ultimately by sunlight, while others are powered by . But either way, you need a source of energy or life can't survive.  There seems to be no substantial photosynthesis on Dune, since the planet is almost all either open sand or bare rock. (Some plants are mentioned, but they are all familiar Earth species and were presumably brought there by humans.) Perhaps the sand plankton, or even the sandtrouts or the sandworms themselves, are  --- but if so, where do they get their energy from? In short, where are the  of the Dune ecosystem, and what do they eat?  To the best of my knowledge, this issue isn't mentioned in the original book, but Herbert wrote a lot of sequels, and it seems that having a plausible ecology is something he cared about, so I'm wondering if he addressed this point in any of his later works.