What the chuff are these?

[chezvegas85]

http://i49.tinypic.com/2zgc842.jpg


Just found them on the wall within a couple of inches of each other. were still (ice cold upstairs as central heating is only on downstairs) started zooming about once in front room on tissue paper. My guess would be fly larvae?

*Oh and they are the size of a grain of rice

[dizzyblonde]

Bugzzzz ;)

[5hort5]

how big are they? They looke like a beetle larvae of some type.

[5hort5]

maybe this .......

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Environment/PublicHealth/Pestcontrol/Dermestes%20ssp%20beetles.htm

[The Idle Biker]

They are larvae of the Death Beetle, named due to the fact that touching the larvae can lead to a slow and painful death. Symptoms start about 36 hours after touching and death usually occurs 48 hours after that.

[missyburd]

how big are they? They looke like a beetle larvae of some type.
That was my first thought...better pic?

[chezvegas85]

Sorry my phone struggled with that pic. They are now in the bin, although alive in the bin. They were covered in hairs, prob hard to discern on the photo

[missyburd]

Just looked up what I suspected, carpet beetle larvae....hope you've not got an infestation.

[chezvegas85]

I hope not, just the two so far. Its a rented house anyways so shall pass it onto the landlord if needs be

[chezvegas85]

Just looked up what I suspected, carpet beetle larvae....hope you've not got an infestation.

google image search...thats the blighters. hopefully thats all of em, thanks for the assist

[SIII]

Look like woolly bears (carpet beeetle larvae), i had them in my flat years ago, came from pidgeon nest on the balcony. I kept the nest cos i have never met anyone who has seen a baby pidgeon! Have you?

I pushed off the balcony (11 floors) after i found out the infestation came from nest.

[chezvegas85]

Look like woolly bears (carpet beeetle larvae), i had them in my flat years ago, came from pidgeon nest on the balcony. I kept the nest cos i have never met anyone who has seen a baby pidgeon! Have you?

I pushed off the balcony (11 floors) after i found out the infestation came from nest.

hope the babs had already left, flying rats i know, but thats harshhhhh if it was a full nest

[SIII]

Hadn't hatched, flying rats as you say!

Has anyone ever seen a baby pidgeon? By the time you see them on the street, they already have mangled feet etc, or was that just the ones in Sheffield?

[Sir Trev]

By the time you see them on the street, they already have mangled feet etc, or was that just the ones in Sheffield?

Nope. A clause in the franchise wording says every railway station in the country has to have a colony of mutilated flying rats living in or around it.

[chezvegas85]

Hadn't hatched, flying rats as you say!

Has anyone ever seen a baby pidgeon? By the time you see them on the street, they already have mangled feet etc, or was that just the ones in Sheffield?

Yeh due to those lovely shop ledge spikes, i'm pretty close to sheffield. maybe i have your old pigeon

[SIII]

Funnily enough my flat overlooked the train station in Sheffield !!!

[BoltonSte]

Look like woolly bears (carpet beeetle larvae), i have never met anyone who has seen a baby pidgeon! Have you?



yep (ncle, Grandad and Dad were racers), ugly prehistoric looking litle buggers. You didn't miss owt.

[chezvegas85]

yep (ncle, Grandad and Dad were racers), ugly prehistoric looking litle buggers. You didn't miss owt.

you intrigued me with prehistoric

http://i45.tinypic.com/33wu05d.jpg

good lord, you weren't kidding

[SIII]

So are they like full size before they leave the nest? Cos i ain't ever seen any ugly little feckers like them in sheffield! Well some of the lasses at Romeo's and Juliets on a Friday night!

[chezvegas85]

Your mistaken, the type of birds you saw would of had more flesh on show

[BigBaddad]

Crabs