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What is this thing?

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They seem to spin some kind of silk everywhere they go. They seem to be no longer than about 4 mm. I noticed them crawling up things and then dropping down on a line of silk. I've started catching them by putting little sticks up in the air attached everywhere that I find them. They tend to gather at the top of the stick for easy rapture by vacuum.

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[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They look kind of like house centipedes but they don't look like house centipede larvae. They don't have the long hairs just all their hairs are the same length.

Also the silk is not something I have heard of the house centipedes doing.

[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Looking closer, maybe it's a hunting mohican(sic) terrible name but cool bug.