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« on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 13:57:34 » |
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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.
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Flashheart
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« Reply #1 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 13:59:35 » |
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Sounds like moth larvae to me
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« Reply #2 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:10:14 » |
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Sounds like moth larvae to me
oooh interesting - any idea where they are likely to be hiding or what I should look for ? |
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« Reply #3 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:19:28 » |
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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 |
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« Reply #4 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:20:48 » |
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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. |
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« Reply #5 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:24:15 » |
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« Reply #6 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:25:43 » |
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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...
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« Reply #7 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:29:08 » |
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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. |
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« Reply #8 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:32:50 » |
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Take the carpet up and put laminate down.
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« Reply #9 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:48:26 » |
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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.
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« Reply #10 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 14:49:17 » |
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Take the carpet up and put laminate down.
Sounds like a plan - carpet always gets wiffy in loos. |
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« Reply #11 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 15:01:20 » |
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Take the carpet up and put laminate down.
Eventually we will put a tiled floor down. Cheers for the help everyone - I really didn't have a clue. |
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« Reply #12 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 15:09:45 » |
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Thank God this topic wasn't started by one of our female contributors.
Made me shudder just thinking about it!!!
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« Reply #13 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 19:31:42 » |
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If you stopped pissing on the carpet it might help
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« Reply #14 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 19:45:22 » |
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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]
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