Help with brown larvae identification

Fbuddy · #1 (**permalink**) 19-09-2010, 11:47 AM

Can anybody help identify these larvae which we have found crawling on the floor of our newly carpeted room.

They don't seem to be coming from inside the room, we were wondering if the smell of the new carpet is attracting them?

A photo of one is below:

Dogghound · #2 (**permalink**) 19-09-2010, 04:02 PM

I believe its the larvae of one of the Faniidae (lesser houseflies)

They feed on decaying matter, so i would have a good look around, if you get loads i would look under the floor boards. Also might be worth looking to see if you have any old birds nests in the roof could have dropped down.

serendipity · #3 (**permalink**) 19-09-2010, 08:23 PM

Nice screen name OP!

Fbuddy · #4 (**permalink**) 20-09-2010, 07:49 AM

Thank you for your reply.

After searching the internet for photos it does appear that these are the 'grubs' we are seeing. I'm very perplexed where they are coming from as they all appear to be upstairs where there should be no decaying matter.

My partner and I have decided to go into our loft to see if we can find the source.

Many thanks
Fiona

Ahw · #5 (**permalink**) 21-06-2011, 06:45 AM

These little maggotts keep showing up on our floors too. The only thing i can think is that they are crawling out of our compost bin. We have searched the attic and under the house, but have not found anything dead or rotting. They just kind of show up seemingly out of nowhere. Any thoughts? Can they crawl up vertical garbage can walls? I can't help but think they are squeezing through the floor by the way they seem to just show up. AND they aren't always in the kitchen. One was on our wood floor in the living room. Going crazy here...

janataber · #6 (**permalink**) 24-09-2011, 02:18 PM

Hi. Did you find an answer to your identification problem in the end? I keep finding the odd one of these things upstairs, and have searched the internet and narrowed it down to a woolly bear grub, which is the larvae of the carpet beetle, which has overtaken the clothes moth as a textile pest, eating carpets and clothes. I now need to find out how to get rid of them, with the minimum use of chemicals!