HELP - bugs in house - look like grubs/little worms???

[Anonymous]

Oh I have the BEST maggot story.
One morning, I was toweling off after my shower and felt something fall on my shoulder. Looked exactly like what you describe, OP. A whitish bug with a brown spot on one side. I was grossed out but didn't think much of it. Flushed it down the toilet and went about my day.
The next day, I went into the bathroom to take my shower and there were freaking maggots all over the bathroom floor, crawling around the shower and fvcking falling from the vent in the ceiling.
Turns out a mouse had died in our attic, right were the bathroom ceiling vents. Yummy.

[Anonymous]

Did you ever find out what kind of worm or maggot it is I think I have the same problem, they just appear in my sun room, my sun room is surrounded by trees and one of them is a nut tree but I am not sure if that has any thing to do with it, 3 years ago they came and then for 2 years I have had no problem and then 1 week ago they started coming back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'm pretty sure they were maggots. My neighbor had given me a brown paper bag full of chestnuts he apparently gathered from a tree in his yard. I set them down on a table in the family room the day before I saw the bugs. When I saw the bugs, I suspected the chestnuts but looked in the bag and didn't see any bugs at all, and the bugs were all around our family room, not just near the bag. Still, I put the bag in the garage just in case. The next day, I stopped seeing the bugs in the house, but the paper bag in the garage was full of them.

Maybe chestnut weevils. The larvae come out of chestnuts.

[Anonymous]

12:45 and I can't sleep so I came onto DCUM.

This thread should help.

[Anonymous]

I recently had a cigarette beetle (a.k.a. grain beetle or flour beetle or drug store beetle) infestation in my kitchen.

They start out as larvae - in the food.

Google cigarette beetle larvae images

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4655685018256723&pid=1.1

One day I saw one tiny tiny dark brown or blag black bug on the floor. A few days later, I saw 6 crawling on the floor. They come from flour, pet food, bread crumbs, even formula. And they come out usually when it's dark. Now, we put all that stuff in tupperware as soon as it comes home. We had an exterminator come too, and haven't had any since.

[Anonymous]

PP here -

It could be weevils too - they are like the cigarette beetle, also come from flour, etc. If I were you, I would go through your food and throw it out - I bet there's larvae in something in your kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh I have the BEST maggot story.
One morning, I was toweling off after my shower and felt something fall on my shoulder. Looked exactly like what you describe, OP. A whitish bug with a brown spot on one side. I was grossed out but didn't think much of it. Flushed it down the toilet and went about my day.
The next day, I went into the bathroom to take my shower and there were freaking maggots all over the bathroom floor, crawling around the shower and fvcking falling from the vent in the ceiling.
Turns out a mouse had died in our attic, right were the bathroom ceiling vents. Yummy.

WOW - that is a good maggot story!!

[Anonymous]

It's likely maggots. We had this happen. What happens is flies come into the house, lay eggs, and the eggs turn into maggots. Just get rid of the flies and the maggots and there won't be a continuing problem.

[Anonymous]

I have worm like maggots falling from my trees anyone know what they could be ??

[Anonymous]

They are the larvae of pantry moths. PANTRY MOTHS. They are in your grain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have worm like maggots falling from my trees anyone know what they could be ??

Are they dark? They might be tent caterpillars not maggots.

[Anonymous]

I vote clothing moth larva.

I hope it is the chestnuts -- smaller problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'm pretty sure they were maggots. My neighbor had given me a brown paper bag full of chestnuts he apparently gathered from a tree in his yard. I set them down on a table in the family room the day before I saw the bugs. When I saw the bugs, I suspected the chestnuts but looked in the bag and didn't see any bugs at all, and the bugs were all around our family room, not just near the bag. Still, I put the bag in the garage just in case. The next day, I stopped seeing the bugs in the house, but the paper bag in the garage was full of them.

Maybe chestnut weevils. The larvae come out of chestnuts.

This. We have chestnut trees and that's what happens. If the chestnuts float in water, they have the weevil in them.

[Anonymous]

I know this post was a while ago but, we found these same bugs this AM I am really grossed out! I went to store and bought Fumigators do you think that will take care of what ever they are living off of

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this post was a while ago but, we found these same bugs this AM I am really grossed out! I went to store and bought Fumigators do you think that will take care of what ever they are living off of

PP,

Where did you find them? I would not use fumigators until you find the source. And even then fumigators are probably unnecessary.

We once went away for several days and found a few maggots close to our dog's bowl. For a second, I thought it was the residue of leftover dog food, but it turns out it was a small piece of raw chicken that fell to the bottom of the garbage can.

Gross, yes, but clean it up and problem solved.

If you have a mass of them somewhere, there might be a dead rodent somewhere. Even then fumigators won't work, you need to find the source and remove it.