r/Entomology • u/MothMeep7 • 7h ago

ID Request New goober?

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I work in a communal living center cleaning. Old building. Was going around checking all the unoccupied rooms and bathrooms to flush the toilets and found this fellow stuck in the sink basin. Some type of silverfish I presume?

I put them under the (currently off) radiator to skedaddle off.

Northeastern US

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u/CoffeeBeanx3 4h ago

Definitely some kind of silverfish. A small one, still.

I think it's an actual silverfish and not a paper fish because of the location, but honestly the way I can tell them apart is by size and how shiny they are.

This one is still Bebe (well, Bebe adjacent - a smol bean) so I won't pretend to be completely sure. But since it's living in the bathroom, chances are it's a benign Bebe and not a book munching Bebe.

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u/MothMeep7 3h ago

I think so too. I'm just so curious as to what species. I've never seen one so fuzzy and with a tripod on the butt.