Can Anyone Identify These?

[chrissa1]

These things fell out of my daughter's settee when she moved it to clean behind.

They are fairly brittle and when she squeezed them, a clear fluid came out. She is freaking out. Thanks.

http://i58.tinypic.com/idf0ir.jpg

[Buenchico]

At a guess, pupating carpet beetles (or similar).

[Sam1960]

Or some sort of moth pupae ? Purely a guess....
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=underwing+pupae&espv=2&biw=1680&;bih=941&tbm=isch&tbo=u&;source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCAQsARqFQoTCNvcl6O_78YCFaVx2wodJ_4DhA

[alavahalf]

What you have there is commonly known as chrysalis ... wait for it ... it is what a maggot develops into just before it hatches and becomes a bluebottle.

Having spent years nursing maggots, it is what's known in fishing circles as a castor.

Somewhere along the line your daughter has left meat hidden down the back of her settee and a bluebottle has laid it's eggs on it .. the eggs turn to maggots and the maggots turn to chrystalis.
There you have the life cycle of a maggot ...

Answer .. your daughter should extend her cleaning activities !

[chrissa1]

OMG.

[clipclop1]

I am said daughter and I can tell you right now that there has definitely been no meat down the back of my sofa!

[chrissa1]

No need for that comment, alavahalf. Thanks.

[Buenchico]

As Alavahalf suggests, the good old common house fly might well have something to do with things here:
http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/learning/resources/Entomology/images/Topics/lifeCycles/fly_lifecycle.jpg

[alavahalf]

"I am said daughter and I can tell you right now that there has definitely been no meat down the back of my sofa! "

Not any more there's not... because the maggots have scoffed it before the turned into chrysalis !

[alavahalf]

House flies and bluebottles need just a fragment of decomposing food or whatever to lay their eggs on. A cat or dog could easily carry a maggot into the house.
It's nothing serious, so don't worry .. our cat is extremely long haired had some maggots appear on her rear end recently. She could quite easily wander anywhere in the house and a maggot drop off of her. That would leave us with a chrystalis we didn't want.
You should have heard the ear bashing I got when the wife returned from work to find the cat with a shaved rear end.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=do+house+flies+lay+eggs