What kind of bug is this??

[CleaTheChameleon]

Hello everyone, yesterday morning and this morning I saw a little bug that had 2 antennas, straight body, and what looked like a bunch of arms....crawling up cleas screen cage on the inside. Bare with me as I don't have pics but hopefully the descriptions can help you figure out what it is. Also when I touched it, it rolled itself inside. It just like rolled it's head into is body. Any ideas? What can I do to get rid of them?

 

[Mr Wilson]

Did it have a bunch of little legs? Similar to something like a silver fish u find by u tub sometime?

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

Yea how can I get rid of them??

 

[JCDenton]

House centipede?

http://apps.caes.uga.edu/news/getstory.cfm?storyid=2759

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

No. It was smaller. Maybe it was a longer one.

 

[weezyboi94]

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/911/55045568.JPG

woodlouse? If it is, its harmless to your chameleon and its ok to be eaten.

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

No it didn't have a shell

 

[Chase]

Do you have a picture? That would help a lot.

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

The only pics I have are really blurry. I will put them up soon

 

[xanthoman]

bug identification

you could try a bug identification search engine of which there are several http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-search.asp http://www.amentsoc.org/insects/what-bug-is-this/ http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/insectid/index.html

 

[AndyRew]

i bet you it was just a really small millipede. i have them in one of my plants.

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

It is a small millipede indeed. Can i cover the soil with like sandwich plastic wrap and then put river rocks over it?

It looked like this

http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/so-id/entomology/Home_&_Garden/millipede.jpg

 

[AndyRew]

they usually dont leave the soil and if they do they die pretty quick. so i wouldnt worry too much. and also they are beneficial to the plant! so thats a bonus.

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

they usually dont leave the soil and if they do they die pretty quick. so i wouldnt worry too much. and also they are beneficial to the plant! so thats a bonus.

Oh great lol. I just covered the plant soil with sandwich wrap but om sure there are more in there. i took out all the ones i could see. Maybe i can move them to the pygmys enclosure?

 

[Schmitt360]

I bet it was a Rolly Poley

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

I bet it was a Rolly Poley

it was defiantly not a roly poly

 

[AndyRew]

i wouldnt really suggest moving them to you pyg enclosure cause the chams might try to eat em and im not posotive but i think millipedes have cyanide in them (not sure if this is true with all millipedes).

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

i wouldnt really suggest moving them to you pyg enclosure cause the chams might try to eat em and im not posotive but i think millipedes have cyanide in them (not sure if this is true with all millipedes).

EH i figured i cant stand how the smell so i tossed them on some guy that i really hate lawn.

 

[Tputtwhatwhat]

EH i figured i cant stand how the smell so i tossed them on some guy that i really hate lawn.

hahahahaha

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

hahahahaha

It was the least i can do for him and the little bugs lol