Ten of these bugs were found behind my bed. I live in Northern California. The bug is 5mm in length.
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I just found this in my Drosophila lab (within a closed vial) - unfortunately it was dead having been frozen for two weeks. Can anyone help id what it is, and whether it poses a risk to my flies (like mites do)? My inclination is that it is some kind of (moth?) larvae. Note the awesome corkscrew tail...  Found in Uppsala, Sweden, May 2014 in a vial of Drosophila with food (a yeast, sugar, and agar mix). Length is about 3-4mm excl. tail.
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A horizontal stick is one metre long. Fifty ants are placed in random positions on the stick, pointing in random directions. The ants crawl head first along the stick, moving at one metre per minute. If an ant reaches the end of the stick, it falls off. If two ants meet, they both change direction. How long do you have to wait to be sure that all the ants have fallen off the stick?
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This bug is crawling all around the house it stays within the shadows and moves very very slow, i have never seen it jump or run, it just moves very slowly    P.S. those bugs as u can see are smaller than 1mm so it's hard to take better pictures but i will get better ones tomorrow  P.S. the hairs are not hairs they are wool from the carpets, i just got married in october 2014 and everything in the house is new, including the flat, it was built in january 2014.    it is very similar to what's in this picture, but i couldn't take a picture of it because it's tooo tiny  I really need to know what it is so I can deal with it :(  Edit: once i found a very little few under the carpet but it generally stays away from the carpets and stays on the tiles and I don't think it is a termite because I don't find any piles of eaten wood  EDIT 2: More pictures:  -- Stage 1 --       -- Stage 2 --       I don't know what it is but I know that there is ones young in age i call them stage 1 they are unable to move  and there are ones I call stage 2 older in age and bigger in size and they can move and I think they can bite too  -- Insect 2 -- 5mm by 5mm     I found this one across the hall from the others and I do't know if it's related, i found it dead but I haven't sprayed that side with insecticides i sprayed the other side so it's possible that it was with the others but ran and died far from them.  EDIT: More photos  P.S. I found those moving in daylight (now)    when i blew a little air i think i turned it
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I was playing Five Nights At Freddy's Sister Location when I found a little number pad in the elevator. I tried several number sequences (1983, 1987, 1234, 2320245) but none of them worked. If anyone knows the number sequence that'd be very useful to me.
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I posted a bug just now () and then I guess I encountered another one.  Usually, after someone else answered my question, the SE would send me a notification.  about 8 mins ago, a nice guy answered one of my questions on ELL (). I haven't received that notation since.   On the other hand, I did receive other notifications, which are for some comments on the bugged question and another question.
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Our family has 2 cats and a dog.  We keep food and water bowls outside for them.  We clean and refill the water bowls every day.  Almost every morning, the water bowl is teeming with small aquatic insects of some kind, which look and act like little shrimp.  I would guess them to be 5 to 8 mm in length, on average.  What are these, and where are they coming from?  They appear to be aquatic, since they survive and swim in the water for hours -- but how do they get there?  We live in central Florida, USA.
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Apparently, there is an advantage to having 6 legs in the insect world. What is that advantage, if anything? Why would such an advantage exist for insects, but not for other, larger land animals?  What do those middle legs do that the front and hind legs cannot, if anything? Are they really essential, or do they just generate more muscle power?
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I found this plant in Hyderabad city of Telangana State,India.Many people of Hyderabad city have planted this flowering plant.I don't know the name of this plant.If it's flower treated as a circle,the flower has diameter of nearly 6cm length.Can any one tell me what is the name of this plant?
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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 is a sci-fi story set on Earth. From the depths of space comes these microbes that latch onto electromagnetic fields. Anything electronic is rendered useless. There's the usual stuff where governments try to solve the issue but make it ultimately worse. It's only when they realise that the microbes surround the planet that they realise it is futile. The story closes with people having returned to a simpler life, using medieval farming methods, not using electricity in any form, getting about by horse, etc. I think it was a short story.
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A story from my [edit - son's] youth, so the description is sort of fragmented.   Humans are almost extinct, most that remain are mutated or cross-breeds. Earth's location is forgotten, but main characters find it. Earth surrounded by blockade of derelict ships. Aliens lack the ambition/survival drive of humans - a broken leg might be a fatal injury. Galactic civilization is decaying.
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I need some help with solving question number 2. The statement of the question is huge and so I refrained from typing it. This is last year's ZIO paper.   So, I thought that rather than vanishing bacterias and then again increasing it, we could keep $K$ bacterias as it is and decrease the number of instructions $A, B, C$ by 1 each. Then we can try to form the rest of the bacterias $i.e (N-K)$ using the 'modified' instructions.   I tried but cannot reach $N$ and I also need to develop a generalized algorithm so that all the test cases are solved easily. Thanks in advance.   This is not an ongoing test.
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9 rows is just way too small by default. Is this a text-editor for ants?
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In the main room of the older apartment I live in, dust is accumulating very quickly. There is no carpet (only hardwood floor), no curtain, no air vent, no pet, no bedding, no clothes. Previous tenants had the same problem so it's not something I brought in.   I cleaned thoroughly, including the baseboard radiator (which, as a test, I covered with cloth to ascertain it's not the cause), behind the range and the fridge (there is a small open kitchen corner). Yet, here's what a surface looks like 3 days after wiping it clean:    The dust looks more like tiny fibers. In raking light, as seen here, it's quite impressive.  Any clue would be greatly appreciated.  For those who may have the same problem, the dust was fiberglass from inside the electric range. When burners were on, convection was sending tiny bits of it in the air.
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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 would like to report a bug.  was apparently closed 2 years ago, but it has only existed for 1 year and 3 months. See a screenshot of the problem below.
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While playing with mosquito racket in my home, I unscrewed the racket and touched the 2 wires with my hands. I felt that my bones were dislocated, I got shocked, but I am not dead.  My calculations say that I should die:  the output voltage is 5 kV to 10 kV, my body resistance is approx. 50 kΩ, the current through my body is 0.1 A if 5 kV to 0.2 A if 10 kV.  According to the table at  I should die; I tried this many times but I am still alive.  I think my interpretation regarding current, voltage and my body resistance is wrong (if right I would be dead by now) - please tell me why I am not dead?