Maggots in carpet...

[Becker]

Weirdest call ever...


Lady calls from the phone book.


sez she is renting a house and what would cause maggots to be in her carpet.


I replied, trash, rotting meat.

She sez she vac the area and more and more show up..

I'm at a loss.

I ask, Are you sure maggots?
Are they moving? Could it be rice?
She replies. Yes moving, and the areas is not damp, or dirty.

I'm then grasping at straws..

Ant larva?
Termites?


She did say she has seen a lot of carpenter ants.

I close the call with, she needs to call her land lord, and have them send out an exterminator.

If it had been a slow day, I would have offered to just come look.

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

Re: Weirdest call ever...

Attagenus Carpet Beetles

Larvae look like worms and feed on dander, and hair. It could be any number of carpet beetle larvae species. If the carpet is wool, then the number of possible species is more diverse.

The absence of high moisture is quite common with a number of types.

Yes, call the exterminator first. Then clean the carpet after the infestation is identified and dealt with.

Here is some more info on the worm types that infest carpet.
http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/insectid/worm.php

 

[lesterj2]

Re: Weirdest call ever...

she may have sucked up some food and dont change her vacuum bag as needed...
and the maggots are coming out of the vacuum bag... but if they are just showing up in that one spot thats crazy...

 

[Nate The Great]

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Steri-fab works Great too. I would agree on any of the listed above.

 

[steve frasier]

Re: Weirdest call ever...

silver fish

 

[B&BGaryC]

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Out in the more barren areas I find a lot of little tiny crawling things. They come out of everywhere and hang out on the carpet. They are kinda red, but not centipedes or millipedes. You find them dead everywhere. Vacuum up tons of them.

 

[Brian R]

Re: Weirdest call ever...

I had a couple hundred dead froggys on a commercial carpet I did a while back. Weird little frogs everywhere...dead.
Sucked em up and cleaned the filter right away...didn't want it smellin too bad.