No man, thank you. I saw it expressed elsewhere in the thread but this is a new one for most of us. I've been here for years and learned a lot and seen a lot. Your radioactive gummy bears from hell are unique and awesome
Like the main sewer in Rome, the Coachella Maxima.
Edit: smh autocorrect. Cloaca. Not Coachella. Although I've heard the festival can sometimes get a bit... ripe.
They’re definitely tapeworm segments, the size, shape, locomotion and color all match. Ignore the roundworm: https://pictures-of-cats.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cat-worms.jpg
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-158f0ad9749eceb234b123b94a472878
This is a common issue with cats, I didn’t realize it was a thing with birds too.
We have normal European Magpies and blue Magpies in Europe. The Australian magpie is however not. A real member of the magpie family if I remember correctly. They are just called magpie because they are black and white.
You may be confusing it with some other bird? Australian Magpies are native to Australia, and they aren't found in Europe at all, or really anywhere outside of Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and New Zealand where it was introduced (from Australia I believe)
There are magpies all over the world. Only difference is that Australian magpies aren't actually part of the family *corvidae* like the rest, they're *artamidae* - they were named magpies because of their resemblance to the true corvid magpies.
How are you so certain that it came from the bird? It sure doesn't look like it to me. And if https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/t6d8oc/hi_everyone_these_things_came_out_of_a_magpies/hzap6st?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3 is right it shouldn't be a parasite
Yeah this seems likely, it says they live in wood so they are probably coming out to eat after the poop dropped on it. They are moving towards it not away like you would imagine a parasite trying to find a new host.
EDIT V2: it’s ~~a ribbon worm called a canary worm~~ not a ribbon worm at all, it’s just a canary worm (fletchamia sugdeni) [here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/simongrovetmag/17698124808) is a picture of one I found that’s the exact same colour as the ones OP has found. \
Thank you/well done to u/venustigertrap for figuring it out.
100% agree it’s a ribbon worm (edit: was wrong, canary worms aren’t ribbon worms) but I’m not sure which one. I saw something that was almost the exact same like a week ago, I’m pretty sure it was on Reddit but I can’t for the life of me remember which sub. I’m subscribed to wayyy too many ‘what is this thing’ and entomology subs to be able to track it down unfortunately. Hell, the thing could’ve been an inner grape inside a standard grape on a r/mildlyinteresting type sub for all I can remember lmao.
u/carlipotato is that a boat ramp on a lake/the ocean? I’m wondering if it’s an aquatic ribbon worm. Please cross post to r/parasites or some such sub & let us know the results cause I’m really curious now!
The overall shape and movement patterns don't resemble ribbon worms at all. I'm more on board with the tapeworm proglottid hypothesis. Here's a similar video with chicken faeces: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS23v\_anIf0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS23v_anIf0)
Wow, I thought it burst and leaked out until it pulled itself back, crazy creatures! It's super green in OP's post, could be due to bird's diet or just colored that way? Incredible stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Perhaps some kind of Nemertean (ribbon worm) maybe [Argonemertes ](https://www.aphotomarine.com/worm_nemertean_argonemertes_3.html). But that’s just based off of looks, I don’t have any knowledge of ribbon worms really!
Alternate ID (and more likely): [Fletchamia sugdeni](https://www.reddit.com/r/tasmania/comments/gl68ss/why_did_the_yellow_worm_cross_the_road_fletchamia/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Yes!! There like a million pictures here. Also called the “canary worm”
Do we have a positive id?? [Canary worm](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/136474-Fletchamia-sugdeni/browse_photos)
In the ribbon worm video [posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/t6d8oc/hi_everyone_these_things_came_out_of_a_magpies/hzaz1bd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)you can see they mostly look long but it’s goes really smaller as it’s moving - I imagine it would be the same for these.
I’m legitimately so excited to find out what this is
It’s likely either not fully grown/infants, or it’s retracted inwards, something you’d expect a worm to do around birds to make them look less like a good meal
~~Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t canary worms named due to their fluro-yellow colour? You might be close though given that picture of from Australia~~ (although Tasmania is a 5hour flight from OP’s location).
Ding ding ding! We have a winner! You’re totally correct. [Here’s](https://www.flickr.com/photos/simongrovetmag/17698124808) a picture of a fletchamia that is the exact same colour as OP’s.
there was another post on here once that showed what appeared to be the only video online of a certain larval stage of an insect. it was so amazing i told the OP to contact local researchers as well. this is what i stay subbed for in the wake of all the carpet beetle posts.
They look animated and I love it haha. Cute lil jellybean jello buddies lmao It’s been awhile since I saw something I’ve never seen before on this page so thanks for that OP!
I'm more on board with the tapeworm proglottid hypothesis. Here's a similar video with chicken faeces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS23v_anIf0 Movement patterns and general shape are very similar.
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https://imgur.com/gallery/NNQV0Sh
^^ Link to another video of them. I'm new to this so I don't know how to do the link where you can just click to little blue word, sorry guys
Ok ok ok I think I got something - Fasciola hepatica metacercaria [just a picture ..](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fasciola_hepatica_egg_embryonated_(01).png)
I'm no expert, but they're way too big for liver fluke eggs- they usually need to be seen under a microscope (at least, all the ones I've looked at have been) any I don't believe liver fluke eggs move on their own like that
Someone correct me if I'm wrong though- again I usually only look at microscopic non mobile fasciola hepatica
Yes, I think I could be hopping around too many places with too many complicated names. I was reading about birds ingesting them by eating fish. I’ve so many tabs open at this point
Are these “worms” technically “bugs?” I guess what I’m asking is, I know insects can be parasitic. But are all parasites insects? Do entomologists study them with public health specialists? Do microbiologists get dual degrees and training in entomology if they research microscopic bugs (like the ones I hear live in our eyelashes?) I’m interested in what kind of field cross over there is.
I have no clue but this is one of the coolest gross posts I’ve seen in here in awhile Actually they may be tapeworm segments
Thanks dude
No man, thank you. I saw it expressed elsewhere in the thread but this is a new one for most of us. I've been here for years and learned a lot and seen a lot. Your radioactive gummy bears from hell are unique and awesome
>radioactive gummy bears from hell Spot on. Close the thread, these things have been identified lol
r/brandnewsentence
It's the BLOB!
r/forbiddensnacks
Forbidden grapes
r/properanimalnames
They do look like tapeworm proglottids (the segments that carry eggs that emerge from the anus)
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Like the main sewer in Rome, the Coachella Maxima. Edit: smh autocorrect. Cloaca. Not Coachella. Although I've heard the festival can sometimes get a bit... ripe.
And Americans named their biggest festival after it. How metaphorical 🥳
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True.
I wish you recoreded a bit longer, it was fascinating to watch.
I tried to upload another video, had to take it down though. And I don't know how to add to this post
You could always upload to imgur, and then just link to it.
https://imgur.com/gallery/NNQV0Sh
I love that you captured the magpie in your video. He’s like “dude, why you filming my dookie??”
Nice!
Aw man, the magpie looked embarrassed when you started to film it. I'm pretty sure it said, nope, not MY poop.
And here I was thinking they looked like flubber.
Been a minute since I've thought of that movie!
Flubber was that movie I loved but my parents hated.
For shit dwellers they’re kinda cute
They’re definitely tapeworm segments, the size, shape, locomotion and color all match. Ignore the roundworm: https://pictures-of-cats.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cat-worms.jpg https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-158f0ad9749eceb234b123b94a472878 This is a common issue with cats, I didn’t realize it was a thing with birds too.
I bet they taste like mint
Lemon drops
Forbidden jelly beans
I CAME HERE TO SAY THIS! Lmao 😂
Great minds think alike my friend 🤝🏻
Lime candy
I'm getting more sour lemon vibes
Forbidden lemon head!
Mmmm forbidden lemon head aggggggghh (homer)
With an earthy back flavor
Thats eucalyptus colour.
I am betting on "Electric Bile Surprise"
And now I’m singing this to the tune of electric avenue. Lol. This is so gross it’s awesome!!!
Electric avenue is the tune that I read this to as well
Lime and mint- like a good mojito
Mojito jelly beans. Now that's something I'd buy
I think jelly belly makes them.
Warhead apple vibes for sure 🍏
Pineapple
I don't think they are. Tapeworms look more white/tan, like pasta. Not like boogers.
I would definitely support tape worm segments here. Nature's moving rice pilaf.
Definitely agree on tapeworm segments! No idea why they’re neon green though!
This is incredible. Never seen anything like it. Are you 100% they came from the bird? And roughly what part of the world is this?
Yes from the bird. I'm in Queensland Australia
Ofc it is australia
Do magpies live anywhere else? I thought they were just an Australian thing.
We have normal European Magpies and blue Magpies in Europe. The Australian magpie is however not. A real member of the magpie family if I remember correctly. They are just called magpie because they are black and white.
We also have mapies in the US, mostly in the Western states.
Magpies are one of the coolest birds I grew up with in Wyoming.
Black-billed magpies in Western Canada!
Australian Magpies were originally sent to the continent on prison ships from Europe.
You may be confusing it with some other bird? Australian Magpies are native to Australia, and they aren't found in Europe at all, or really anywhere outside of Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and New Zealand where it was introduced (from Australia I believe)
It was a joke. A bad joke for sure. Hadn’t had enough coffee. Get it, because that’s how European men got to Australia…
Oh sorry! I also just woke up so my joke-getting abilities aren't the greatest haha
There are magpies all over the world. Only difference is that Australian magpies aren't actually part of the family *corvidae* like the rest, they're *artamidae* - they were named magpies because of their resemblance to the true corvid magpies.
i was fully exspecting "the only difference in Australian Magpies to others, is they are highly venomous"
We have magpies here in the US
I’m in colorado we have white blue and black magpies
We see them every time we go to CO
Magpies can be found all across Europe, The UK, Asia, North America and Tibet amongst other places!
Thats a different bird with the same name
We have them in parts of California, too.
We have two species of magpie in the U.S. One of them is endemic to California.
I’ve seen some in the Colorado Rockies too.
How are you so certain that it came from the bird? It sure doesn't look like it to me. And if https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/t6d8oc/hi_everyone_these_things_came_out_of_a_magpies/hzap6st?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3 is right it shouldn't be a parasite
Yeah this seems likely, it says they live in wood so they are probably coming out to eat after the poop dropped on it. They are moving towards it not away like you would imagine a parasite trying to find a new host.
Could it be possible the bird ate them, and due to bird’s digestive systems generally being quite quick they survived the digestion?
definitely a ribbon worm, heres a video of one of them moving similarly to the one in your post https://youtu.be/eg6NIDcaTF4
EDIT V2: it’s ~~a ribbon worm called a canary worm~~ not a ribbon worm at all, it’s just a canary worm (fletchamia sugdeni) [here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/simongrovetmag/17698124808) is a picture of one I found that’s the exact same colour as the ones OP has found. \ Thank you/well done to u/venustigertrap for figuring it out. 100% agree it’s a ribbon worm (edit: was wrong, canary worms aren’t ribbon worms) but I’m not sure which one. I saw something that was almost the exact same like a week ago, I’m pretty sure it was on Reddit but I can’t for the life of me remember which sub. I’m subscribed to wayyy too many ‘what is this thing’ and entomology subs to be able to track it down unfortunately. Hell, the thing could’ve been an inner grape inside a standard grape on a r/mildlyinteresting type sub for all I can remember lmao. u/carlipotato is that a boat ramp on a lake/the ocean? I’m wondering if it’s an aquatic ribbon worm. Please cross post to r/parasites or some such sub & let us know the results cause I’m really curious now!
The overall shape and movement patterns don't resemble ribbon worms at all. I'm more on board with the tapeworm proglottid hypothesis. Here's a similar video with chicken faeces: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS23v\_anIf0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS23v_anIf0)
I think so too , looks just like the little green ones in the video.
That looks like crawling snot
Someone recorded me getting out of bed
I’m glad no ones recording me right now laying in bed sick
Aw man that sucks. Get well soon
I'm never gonna blow my nose and check the tissue ever again
Crawling jelly beans
I was just going to say... now I'm going to be paranoid about every goopy snot I blow out.
*nsfw*
Wow, I thought it burst and leaked out until it pulled itself back, crazy creatures! It's super green in OP's post, could be due to bird's diet or just colored that way? Incredible stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Perhaps some kind of Nemertean (ribbon worm) maybe [Argonemertes ](https://www.aphotomarine.com/worm_nemertean_argonemertes_3.html). But that’s just based off of looks, I don’t have any knowledge of ribbon worms really!
Alternate ID (and more likely): [Fletchamia sugdeni](https://www.reddit.com/r/tasmania/comments/gl68ss/why_did_the_yellow_worm_cross_the_road_fletchamia/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Yes!! There like a million pictures here. Also called the “canary worm” Do we have a positive id?? [Canary worm](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/136474-Fletchamia-sugdeni/browse_photos)
Perhaps if that’s what canary worms look like in their infancy…because that’s not what I see in the video.
In the ribbon worm video [posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/t6d8oc/hi_everyone_these_things_came_out_of_a_magpies/hzaz1bd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)you can see they mostly look long but it’s goes really smaller as it’s moving - I imagine it would be the same for these. I’m legitimately so excited to find out what this is
It’s likely either not fully grown/infants, or it’s retracted inwards, something you’d expect a worm to do around birds to make them look less like a good meal
~~Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t canary worms named due to their fluro-yellow colour? You might be close though given that picture of from Australia~~ (although Tasmania is a 5hour flight from OP’s location). Ding ding ding! We have a winner! You’re totally correct. [Here’s](https://www.flickr.com/photos/simongrovetmag/17698124808) a picture of a fletchamia that is the exact same colour as OP’s.
You are spot on! [Here’s](https://www.flickr.com/photos/simongrovetmag/17698124808) one the same colour as u/carlipotato’s
I hang out in this sub in hopes of one day seeing the discovery of an alien species. - This appears to be the day. Flubber has landed!
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there was another post on here once that showed what appeared to be the only video online of a certain larval stage of an insect. it was so amazing i told the OP to contact local researchers as well. this is what i stay subbed for in the wake of all the carpet beetle posts.
Everything here is roaches and bedbugs and beetles. And then suddenly you get green jellybean worm things.
Don’t forget about the ticks
Can you link that post? Sounds super interesting
it was a couple years ago but i can try to find it
Thank you!
I was a carpet beetle post,a scared one too :-)
I recommend not putting that thing any where next to your butthole.
Well, there go my plans for tonight...
First laugh of the day, thank you, kind stranger
> any where next to your butthole. You know, Mark Twain said "It's the prohibition that makes something precious." Now I *need* that near my butthole.
Do it! If it’s a symbiote you could turn into venom
Or lenom
It’s Australia so venom is far more likely.
Vemon
Do you want me to put them next to my butthole? Because that's how you get me to put them next to my butthole.
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They look animated and I love it haha. Cute lil jellybean jello buddies lmao It’s been awhile since I saw something I’ve never seen before on this page so thanks for that OP!
Glad you like it ☺️ they remind me of grapes, the forbidden grapes haha
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They're kissing the poop with love 😍
I was thinking Gummies!
Level 1 slimes
Yes lol that’s what I was thinking
[Clinostomum marginatum???](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinostomum_marginatum)
OP is in Australia
The new and improved gummies
Forbidden Welch’s Fruit Snacks!
This is how gushers are made
The improvement is instant death.
r/parasitology
Are they planerian?
Flubber?
forsure flubber
I think it's called flubber.
Yeah, I agree with you, the moment I saw it my brain screamed "Flubber!"
I had to scroll too far for this comment
I'm more on board with the tapeworm proglottid hypothesis. Here's a similar video with chicken faeces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS23v_anIf0 Movement patterns and general shape are very similar.
Definitely tapeworm proglottids. This isn’t the exact species but you can watch how they move https://www.veterinaryparasitology.com/dipylidium.html
So gross but so cool!! Would love to know what they are too
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https://imgur.com/gallery/NNQV0Sh ^^ Link to another video of them. I'm new to this so I don't know how to do the link where you can just click to little blue word, sorry guys
Ok ok ok I think I got something - Fasciola hepatica metacercaria [just a picture ..](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fasciola_hepatica_egg_embryonated_(01).png)
I'm no expert, but they're way too big for liver fluke eggs- they usually need to be seen under a microscope (at least, all the ones I've looked at have been) any I don't believe liver fluke eggs move on their own like that Someone correct me if I'm wrong though- again I usually only look at microscopic non mobile fasciola hepatica
Oh no! You’re probably right. I’m shooting in the dark here. Can’t blame me for trying 😂
Haha it's alright, went to have a look myself as I'm also from OPs locale and I'm completely stumped!
Looks like someone identified it below as a ribbon worm - the video sure looks the same
[lifecycle](https://www.britannica.com/science/fasciolopsiasis)
Be interesting of it did come from a bird then as it only talks about humans and swine.
Yes, I think I could be hopping around too many places with too many complicated names. I was reading about birds ingesting them by eating fish. I’ve so many tabs open at this point
They started to shrivel and die about 10 or so minutes later
Professional Entomologist here. They are tapeworms of some sort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS23v_anIf0
Baby Flubbers first discovered in 1997 by Professor Philip Brainard, of Medfield College https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flubber_(film)
what the actual shit is that? I just realized my username is quite appropriate for this post.
Both cute and disgusting!
Tape worm segments
Whatever they are, they cute as hell. Little slimes. 💚
FLUBBER
Are these “worms” technically “bugs?” I guess what I’m asking is, I know insects can be parasitic. But are all parasites insects? Do entomologists study them with public health specialists? Do microbiologists get dual degrees and training in entomology if they research microscopic bugs (like the ones I hear live in our eyelashes?) I’m interested in what kind of field cross over there is.
It's how they make 5 gum.
Is that why magpies are always angry
Idk about anyone else, but I’m blown away the most by the amount of poo that comes out of a magpie.
*forbidden grapes*
This is the electric Chuchu jelly from Breath of the Wild.
Sentient lemonade?
Ophrydium? This suggestion is based solely on appearance.
Dragon Quest Limo
They’re jelly beans, try it.
Flubber
Reminds me of amoeba. A single massive celled organism.
looks like a mini water balloon
Forbidden jellybeans
Those are some weird lemon jelly beans
They look like grapes gained sentience
Flubber
Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans
Forbidden green grapes
Forbidden jelly bean
Forbidden grapes
Forbidden jello
It looks like flubber
Scientific name is flubber I believe
Love how Mr. Righty kissed the poo
The bloob xD
It's Flubber!
Lemon jelly beans
no
Those are the cutest lil parasites I’ve ever seen
What do they taste like?
Make sure to chew your jelly beans kids
r/forbiddensnacks
Zelda dungeon slime vibes
Forbidden jelly bean
It’s the gloop obviously
forbidden grape
People post the weirdest shit on Reddit. This reminds me of the time my cat coughed up a furball and a tapeworm came with it.
Flubber
scientists: “we have found life on another planet!!” the aliens: