After recent rain i started seeing some worms in the kitchen

Are they worms or maggots?
If maggots and near the fridge it could be rotting food either under or in the fridge.

never seen worms  - more likely to be rotting food somehwere and like others have suggested likely to be maggots

toonarmy9752 wrote:

never seen worms  - more likely to be rotting food somehwere and like others have suggested likely to be maggots

oh well they started coming just after the rain. we don't have any spoiled food and everything is very clean inside the fridge.

here's a picture, now this just appeared after I killed 3 earlier. even if it was food I don't think they could be so many. check this out, he even flexed to be more pretty now!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/289 … 153229.jpg

I am starting not to like Malta....

gabrio wrote:

toonarmy9752 wrote:

never seen worms  - more likely to be rotting food somehwere and like others have suggested likely to be maggots

oh well they started coming just after the rain. we don't have any spoiled food and everything is very clean inside the fridge.

here's a picture, now this just appeared after I killed 3 earlier. even if it was food I don't think they could be so many. check this out, he even flexed to be more pretty now!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/289 … 153229.jpg

I am starting not to like Malta....

They look like maggots but could be  thin caterpillars!

tearnet wrote:

gabrio wrote:

toonarmy9752 wrote:

never seen worms  - more likely to be rotting food somehwere and like others have suggested likely to be maggots

oh well they started coming just after the rain. we don't have any spoiled food and everything is very clean inside the fridge.

here's a picture, now this just appeared after I killed 3 earlier. even if it was food I don't think they could be so many. check this out, he even flexed to be more pretty now!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/289 … 153229.jpg

I am starting not to like Malta....

They look like maggots but could be  thin caterpillars!

LOL but not fun, lets see if we can get some people to dismantle the fridge and do a proper cleanup and cover the holes.

My bets are for the nearby construction site, rained a lot, earth got flooded and brought up worms and now they are exploring.

thanks for opinions anyway
have a good sunday

gabrio

Hey Gabrio this is definitely a type of beetle larvae and would be either 1 of 2 types it would either be a meal feeder eating things like bran, cereal or dried food possibly even dry dog food or the second type a wire worm which would eat plant roots and you would find it living on any type of plant.

It's more likely to be the first type because even if the ground got flooded the wireworms would generally just sit on the surface until it could go back underground to the roots it feeds on whereas the meal type live in the aforementioned foodstuffs until they pupate where they would then tend to wander ( before pupation)I would check every cereal, flour dogfood etc you have to see if there is an infestation  and this should get rid of them.

Either way they are no threat to human health on their own but you wouldn't want to eat the foodstuff they have been living in.

Hope this helps Jay . A passionate but amateur entomologist.

JayJay1970 wrote:

Hey Gabrio this is definitely a type of beetle larvae and would be either 1 of 2 types it would either be a meal feeder eating things like bran, cereal or dried food possibly even dry dog food or the second type a wire worm which would eat plant roots and you would find it living on any type of plant.

It's more likely to be the first type because even if the ground got flooded the wireworms would generally just sit on the surface until it could go back underground to the roots it feeds on whereas the meal type live in the aforementioned foodstuffs until they pupate where they would then tend to wander ( before pupation)I would check every cereal, flour dogfood etc you have to see if there is an infestation  and this should get rid of them.

Either way they are no threat to human health on their own but you wouldn't want to eat the foodstuff they have been living in.

Hope this helps Jay . A passionate but amateur entomologist.

Cheers for the info.
Gab

Over the past month or more we have had an infestation of pale green caterpillars, with black spots on either side of their bodies, crawling up the exterior walls of our block of apartments. They are determined and have reached our third floor balcony where some have pupated(?). We wonder if they are the off-spring of the myriad of white butterflies who have been flying around the fields of wild flowers below.

we had these in a flat in the UK (well very similar). I suggest you check your cupboards for cereal or oatcakes, oats, bran etc which they might be living in. Keep an eye out for the moths they turn into to. In the end we found a packet of pine nuts in a rarely used cupboard which they had hatched out of and then eaten and infested our kitchen. GRIM!

thanks guys it looks like we got rid of them after isolating all food (cereals, oats, cous cous, etc) in plastic bags, had few flies for the following days, probably they were turning into that and now no more.