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ok, I need a little bit of help/advice here please chaps and chappesses.

In my downstairs bathroom I have noticed that we have started to get little maggoty like insects/crawlies eating the carpet. They are the size of a grain of rice and off white/yellow in appearance - although they turn red after eating the carpet.

I have tried to find out where they are coming from, had the carpet up, cleaned, bleached, filled, hoovered, vaxed and they are still coming. Its a relatively new house (14 years old), concrete floors so no floorboards. Its is very clean and there is no signs of damp other than my 5 year old son learning to control his hose pipe.

Any help, advice or recommendation or similar stories please share.

Sounds like moth larvae to me

oooh interesting - any idea where they are likely to be hiding or what I should look for ?

Duh! Moths?!  There's been a spate of them recently... Call the council, they'll come out and fumigate/treat them

Don't have any moths though - thats the issue.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+get+rid+of+moth+larvae

The moths aren't  very big smaller than a fly - they lay the larvae so you may only see the moth once (if at all) but it will leave the eggs which then hatch and eat your carpet...  

Excellent - thanks for your help.

Take the carpet up and put laminate down.

Get some Diamotaceous Earth (google it, not expensive), put a layer under the carpet and a layer on top. After a week vacuum it up off the top of the carpet and they should all be gone.  Might need to do it again three weeks after, leave the stuff under the carpet as a precaution.  DM is a white powder, actually millions of minute fossils and used extensively in pigeon lofts, hen houses etc.

Sounds like a plan - carpet always gets wiffy in loos.

Eventually we will put a tiled floor down.

Cheers for the help everyone - I really didn't have a clue.

Thank God this topic wasn't started by one of our female contributors.

Made me shudder just thinking about it!!!

If you stopped pissing on the carpet it might help

I'm guessing it's a wool carpet? Are they in cases, made of pieces of carpet? If so, then it's clothes moths: [url width=800 height=532]http://ukmoths.org.uk/images/hires/0240Tinea_pellionellaLarvaPC.jpg[/url]

Or perhaps Museum beetle larvae: [url width=800 height=827]http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/gallery/files/7/4/8/anthrenus4.jpg[/url]

No lavare could survive my 7am after Doombar night piss.....makes mrs flash wince breathing that in.

Have you got someone buried under the bathroom floor?

I had these things a few years ago - hideous. Had to replace all carpets in he house, theyll go for curtains and clothes too as they eat any natural fabrics. The curse of the carpet munchers!

Milan Misun

I hope hertha doesn't get his rug munched.

They climb the walls in this neck of the woods. I kid the not.

Carpet crawlers..........you gotta get in to get out!

I just spilt my water all over my desk

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Hold up Bewster, it could be an unrelated incident.