![]() ![]() My wife tells me that as we live in Los Angeles, CA, we don’t have fireflies here. Its underbelly is completely beige, and there is sparse hair growing especially at the ends. There is a blue/purple line running along the entire length, visible in these new photos I’m sending you. Resembles a Pink GlowwormĪ million thanks for getting back to me! Yes, I’m sorry for the blurriness of the photos, I was shooting with an iphone through a plastic bag! The insect has roughly 12 segments, each with bilateral legs, and each segment is pinkish with small white dots, and a visible thin whitish line separating each segment. The real mystery is how it ended up in the toilet. Though it is called a Pink Glowworm, this species is actually a Firefly in the family Lampyridae. We hope we are correct and that you can show the online images to your daughter to alleviate her agitation. Your photos are so blurry a positive identification on our part is highly unlikely, however, we believe based on the coloration and general shape that this might be the larva of a Pink Glowworm, Microphotus angustus, which you can see in better detail on BugGuide. Note: surname withheld for discretionary reasons) This looks a bit like a Pink Glowworm ![]() SAdly, all our internet attempts to idenify this bug accurately have failed. Upon removing it, I found no signs of any fecal matter sticking to it, again suggesting the unlikely possibility of it coming out of her. ![]() She was understandably agitated about this, thinking she had passed this out of her body, although this struck her mom and I as highly unlikely. My daughter found this insect floating in the toilet bowl after a large BM. Subject: Can you tell me about this insect? ![]()
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