Possible parasite?

Freyja737

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Hello everyone !
As always I bought for my male veiled Nugget 2 boxes of crickets from 2 different places the last days. I put them in the same plastic bag with the intention of washing the cricket bucket later and putting them in. So the issue is this creature (photos below, sadly I can’t upload the video I made) was crawling in the bag just now. Does anyone know if that might be a parasite that crawled out from one of the boxes? Or maybe a worm from plants? Looks like a parasite to me so I’m worried that Nugget already had some crickets from one of the boxes. What do you guys think?
 

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Difficult to see, but my first bet would be a caterpillar. It looks like it has only feet in the beginning and end and like the way it walks (pulled up back) would indicate caterpillar and no parasite. But, this is just a thought at first glance.
 
It looks so much like an inch worm. Like @Sonny13 said the way it pulls up all the way to walk.

Most Parasites are not going to be visible to the eye. This is why a fecal test is done to rule them out.
 
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