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Tremors... - Dahlica triquetrella

Tremors... - Dahlica triquetrella
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Size: 1 cm
I brought some house plants back in to the house which had been on the eve all summer. I scanned them for bugs and then went to bed. In the middle of the night I went out and flipped on the light to check and I was pleasently surprised to find insects! My favorite things..
I figured the pots has some things in them so I set them in the middle of a tile floor, and I sat down next to it to pick off a spider which had built a web during the night and I could have swore I saw a clump of dirt move. I used a leaf to sweep it on to a piece of paper and stared at it for a while but it really looked like dirt (10mm by 4mm), at then it twiched. Made me think of tremmors with kevin bacon for some reason.

Microsope time.. It still looks like dirt, except I see it has a spine down the middle, little yellowish hair like tubes along the spine.
It's also covered in little balls, which resemble some type of mini-fruit, some are dried up, some are round and swollen, and some are breaking open and oozing little black liquid.
At the front left side there is an elephant like snout covered in real fine white hairs, and the right side I see one leg, which has two claws. It's like a frankenbug.

If I didn't have pics and was just discribing this you'd all think I was crazy. So on to the pics...

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Tremors... - Dahlica triquetrella Tremors... - Dahlica triquetrella

it's very strange
perhaps it's a masked hunter or a caterpillar in the synchlora category...but my best guess is this

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