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

Anonymous
They are in the kitchen, I didn't see anything where they were. I swept them up through the bag outside ( today is trash day) then I turned around and found more. We are going to move stove and fridge today when I get home from work to just make sure. But I could not find a source of any kind
Anonymous
I once found "little white worms" (didn't know until later they were maggots) on the kitchen counter, near the coffee maker. I thought they must have come from a reusable grocery bag that I had just moved from there, so I threw the bag away, scrubbed down the counter, and moved on. Later I found more in the same spot, with nothing nearby but the coffee maker. I completely disassembled the coffee maker, scrubbed every component, ran a few sanitizing vinegar cycles, and scrubbed down the counter with bleach again. I turned away, and when I returned to the counter THERE WERE MORE F!CKING WORMS. They were close to the same color as the counter, so I thought I must have missed something in cleaning. Scrubbed down the counter again, every inch on that side of the kitchen. When I finished I stood there staring at the counter when I started hearing very faint tapping type sounds. I realized then that they were falling from a crack beside a beam in the ceiling. Maggots. Something dead in the ceiling. Kill me now. If you can't figure out where they're coming from, look up. (Cue the sinister horror movie music). They're coming from the ceiling!!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:They are in the kitchen, I didn't see anything where they were. I swept them up through the bag outside ( today is trash day) then I turned around and found more. We are going to move stove and fridge today when I get home from work to just make sure. But I could not find a source of any kind


Take your garbage can and give it a good scrubbing inside and out. Then I would move the fridge/oven if that doesn't do the trick.
Anonymous
Damn.
I used to like chesnuts.
Anonymous
Ok last June (2012) I was completely grossed out when I saw clusters of maggots in random spots around my house. At first it started with a marked increase of flies. I wasn't very concerened because I had opened the windows and doors for fresh air, so I thought they just flew in. But when I noticed on my hardwood floor what looked like spilled rice, and a few feet away another cluster but in the carpet and realized they were MAGGOTS ... it was everything for me not to vomit on the spot. As I vaccuumed them up, more SQUEEZED their way out of the carpet...as if I was disturbing their nest from the vacuum's vibration. They loved dark spots, so a purse I had put down on the carpet for a few hours had maggots underneath when I lifted it. As well, they were under papers, behind a shelf, near a plant....it was like a raw chicken MUST have exploded at some point during my sleep!!!! Hours later and literally vacuuming then combing my carpet with toothpicks ...I was satisfied I was done. I emptied the vacuum bag and said good ridence to that horrible experience....right???
No
Exactly one year later, they are back. Less of them but really, anything more than zero is NOT TOLERABLE. So my thoughts on extra flies laying eggs in my carpet last year and (hardwood?) blah, blah, blah is incorrect as this appears to be "seasonal carpet maggots".
I'm working on quotes to rip out my carpets and put hardwood or bamboo anyhow because of new found allergies and last years maggots....I'm super scared to see what's underneath......btw....I tend to shampoo my carpets with a company a few times a year and also own my own steam cleaner ....
Help....what is going on????
Anonymous
These are maggots. They do not like bleach sorry you had to see this...it is a southern thing!
Anonymous
11:33 is the closest. You have Meal worms - or what she called Pantry Worms. They come into your home on any type of cereal you might bring in; flower; rice; and your hamter or canary food. Once they are in your home, they will continue to reproduce in your pantry until you see them crawling up the walls from the pantry in the 100s. I believe our meal worms were brought into the house in a burlap bag of rice by an African nanny. BUT it can be cheerios, cat food is a big carrier - almost anything.

Here's the photos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal_worms

IF this is what you think you have, first thing to do is call the exterminator. They will tell you in prep. for their visit, you need to go through everything (and I do mean everything) in your pantry, cat food, wheat, rice stores and see if you can find the original source. In our case the infestation was so bad that we couldn't ever find the source. But you must pull everything out of the pantry and examine every single box, including opening the top to see if one is inthe top. After a while you will get used to what they leave behind so you tell pretty quick what box may or may not be contaminated. Everything that is contaminated (and if the exterminator is good they will mention cruchy dry dog or cat food) goes into plastic bags, sealed tightly and right into the trash.

That's going to take you some time. THEN the exterminator comes and sprays the pantry and any other areas where you have seen them. The exterminator will not go through your boxes for you or spray the boxes. If you have a small child, I would leave the house for a few hours. After the pantry and any other storage areas have been sprayed and dried, only then can you move back in the items that you are now 100% are not infested. The exterminator usually tells you to put each item in large seal-top bags so if you didn't catch it, you will see the worms at the top of the bag trying to get out and can avoid a second spray.

They also say to transfer any dog or cat or pet food into plastic sealed containers when in the house. That way if you open te container and see the worms you can toss it right out.

Sorry - to be long-winded but I've been through this 3 times and it is gross gross gross. Now all sugar, wheat, cereals go right into plastic containers as does animal food.

There is an insurgence of these worms because of the influx of food coming from China. Hope that is helpful.
Anonymous
Sounds like water worms. They're around my house too. They're most likely looking for dirty water, or water on the ground. Do they have Legs?
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.


This is what happens when you don't properly garden and forgo pesticide. Best l to leave it to the professional farmers. Good thing it wasn't something worse.
Anonymous
I'm kind of appalled by how many people react by spraying and fumigating. Yuck! Why poison yourself to get rid of some bugs?
Just find the source and take care of it!
Getting rid of bugs isn't important enough to give yourself an increased disease risk. (i say this as a cancer survivor)
Anonymous
I have maggots on wood flooring also, none in food cupboard, woke up with infestation in my dinning room and kitchen floor. d flies and mats from fruit but no bugs but on the wood floor.
Anonymous
Could it be the wood?
Anonymous
OP here. (Funny, I am rarely on DCUM but popped on today and the first thing I saw was this old thread of mine!)

The bugs were definitely from the chestnuts. They were not pantry moths - the place I found them was not anywhere near food storage areas of our kitchen, I've never seen any bugs in the pantry, and once I got rid of the chestnuts, I never saw any more of these bugs in the family room.
Anonymous
You wouldn't believe the kind of thing I'm finding in the kitchen. A few months ago we starting finding these little red furry type of maggot which just appeared from nowhere, and I seriously mean nowhere - our house is shut up for most of the year and only used about 4-5 times a year. This last visit we found something like a worm which had bored into the wall in the kitchen area and had left something like a trail of dust. On further investigation we'd found the little devils had bored on the other side of the wall. Hoovered it up and found a whole in the wall!! What on earth can cause this much damage and how the devil do I get rid of it
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