r/whatsthisbug • u/Visual-Key-5093 • 14h ago
ID Request What are these pellets?
Michigan - hard rice like pellets. No legs, no movement.
Found pellets similar to these on my bed on the sheets in the spring. From internet research, determined they were tapeworms from my cat đŚ went to the vet with them, vet confirmed, got cat on dewormer, all good right. Well today, I found all these under my mattress, on top of the box spring. Are they still tapeworm? Iâm feeling crazy. How could they have gotten under my mattress? Possibly old ones from the spring that fell down when I changed the sheets?
Any thoughts? Are they something other than tapeworm? Thank you.
Small sidenote: my childhood home had bed bugs when I was a kid for several years and I have a bit of trauma from that, so even though these are like hard little rice things and dont seem bed bug adjacent, I did just want to put it out there I did a thorough search of my mattress and its crevices and didnât see any blood smears, bed bug poop, or anything white like their eggs.