However, even without a picture we are pretty sure this is what he is finding, primarily because of the way he describes their movement. If it has lots of legs, and there is one pair per body segment, then he found centipedes. A reasonably clear photo of one of the creatures could easily establish this. Having a picture is always helpful, but it would be especially helpful in this instance because, as we indicated above, we suspect our reader is finding centipedes. (Unfortunately, one is all but forced to imagine the other methods that failed.) In light of all this information, what is our reader finding? Second, and rather gruesomely, the creatures only die when they are burned in a fire. To this description the reader adds two notes: first, he only finds the worms or centipedes or whatever they are one at a time.

So we are dealing with brown worms (or “brownish” worms, as the reader has it) that are three inches long and move like snakes, often quite quickly.

The worms (if they even are worms – they might be centipedes) move “very fast like a snake.” In fact, even when they aren’t moving quickly, the way they move still resembles a snake. A reader sent us a question about three-inch brown worms that he is finding on his kitchen floor, as well as occasionally in his living room and bathroom.

Download small snake like worm