Can anyone identify this alien creature?

[wildest_jjk]

Hi all,

Staying in a holiday rental atm and just noticed this creature from another planet.

I haven’t seen anything like it before and it has appeared on the wall, moving very slowly every so often. It also has a freaky neck/head that it puts away and then extends when it moves.

Do I need to leave and get a refund?

 

[Haze]

Queen wasp


Great photo btw....

 

[NoobCannon]

Looks like a bogey someones wiped on the wall.

 

[Participant]

Probably an insect larva of some kind.

Looks like the anal burrowing butt beetle perhaps.

 

[haaammit]

It's a Len's Mite. They burrow into your camera's insides and mess up the focusing system.

 

[Kenai]

https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/case-bearing-clothes-moth

 

[Trig]

I use this on my phone to find what bugs are when out and about with work.

Seek by iNaturalist · iNaturalist

 

[ci_newman]

Looks like a silverfish for me in that truely awful photo Not as bad as bedbugs, but nearly as endemic. Put all of your clothes on a boil wash when you get home and make sure you dont have any visitors in your luggage before you put it away.

 

[413x]

Probably an insect larva of some kind.

Looks like the anal burrowing butt beetle perhaps.

Close. But think it more resembles the scrotal pincher weevil.
The anal ones don't look so blurry.

The background could be a close up of a cheek though. So you may be right.

 

[throwaway4372]

I'd guess silverfish, but too blurry.

 

[nox_uk]

I think that’s a Babelfish larvae. Have you tried putting it in your ear?

 

[Haggisman]

Definitely looks like a queen wasp, I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few pixels in my time

 

[Semple]

Did you not want to get too close to it OP. Not sure how anyone is going to accurately determine what it is with such a bad photo.

 

[wildest_jjk]

Lol thanks all, I enjoyed the responses!

In my defence I did crop the photo which I don’t think has helped. I genuinely didn’t think it looked that bad on my iPhone! That said, it is difficult to get a closeup photo when wearing a hazard suit…

I did take another photo without cropping but this might be as awful lol

https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/case-bearing-clothes-moth

I think this is the only serious response and would say that this is correct (apologies if I’ve missed others), thanks!

I use this on my phone to find what bugs are when out and about with work.

Seek by iNaturalist · iNaturalist

I did try this at the time and got what I thought was an incorrect identification. If my photo is that awful then I’m not surprised…

 

[Delvis]

Stop using a potato to take the picture

 

[hughtrimble]

Turn the flash on and get closer to it! It won't bite.




Maybe.

 

[HungryHippos]

Turn the flash on and get closer to it! It won't bite.




Maybe.

*much*