We recommend putting them in a container with air holes and placing it somewhere that has access to sunlight, but is not placed in direct sunlight. Of course, if she is curious about what they are, she could incubate them if she wishes to. To deal with these, we recommend just scooping them onto a dustpan and moving them outside. We doubt they are horsehair worm eggs, as horsehair worms lay their eggs in water. We can’t tell just by looking at them what species of insect they belong to, but given that they are eggs, Heather does not really need to worry about them. When it comes to these, clear objects, we think they are most likely a cluster of insect eggs. Now, if our reader is actually wondering about the translucent objects in the picture, then we suppose the black objects really are just pieces of hair. And these people only contracted horsehair worms because they ingested insects which were infected with the worm. The only symptoms these humans experienced were a result of having a live worm inside them (eg: vomiting the worm). We put ‘infections’ in inverted commas because they have not really been infections, not in the true sense of the word. The truth is that there have been a handful of medically-recognized and documented human ‘infections’ of horsehair worms. Many have claimed to become infected by a horsehair worm and experienced awful symptoms. Despite only infecting insects, horsehair worms have become somewhat of an internet myth. Horsehair worms are infamous parasites, but their reputation is undeserved. With regard to the stringy, black organisms, these could potentially be horsehair worms.
In any case, we will provide options for what either object could be.
“Any idea what it could possibly be?” Now, we are not sure if our reader is referring to the black, hair-like objects, or the translucent, ovate objects that seem to be tangled up in the ‘hair’.
“I found this in my apartment and cannot seem to find anything online that looks similar”, writes Heather in her submission regarding the clump of black and translucent matter pictured below.
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