(dh) John was in the bathroom and felt something on his arm. He looked and it was a white worm that had falled from the ceiling, bounced off his arm and landed on the floor.
He moved out of the way and looked up and a couple more fell down. They were falling out of the exhaust fan.
He got a mop bucket, put a couple of inches of water in it and sat it under the fan. All told, maybe a dozen or so fell out of there.
When I got home, he told me about it. He said his first thought was termite larvae. He googled images and it wasn't that. THen he thought wasp larvae (we've had wasps in our attic) it wasn't that.
They are an inch or two long, white worms... about as big around and the inkwell on the inside of a pen, they have no appendages and the only markings we could tell from our not exactly close scrutiny is a little black line (its guts) you can see on the inside that goes about half way up one end.
At my insistence, John pulled the cover off the fan. I thought maybe something had died up there (a rat) and the worms were maggots (even thought they were larger than maggots in my experience.) But John said there had been no smell. Anyway, he got the cover off and there was NOTHING up there. No trace of whatever those worms might have been. Not gross spot where they might have come from. Just your typical dust...
Cassandra (mystery not solved)
He moved out of the way and looked up and a couple more fell down. They were falling out of the exhaust fan.
He got a mop bucket, put a couple of inches of water in it and sat it under the fan. All told, maybe a dozen or so fell out of there.
When I got home, he told me about it. He said his first thought was termite larvae. He googled images and it wasn't that. THen he thought wasp larvae (we've had wasps in our attic) it wasn't that.
They are an inch or two long, white worms... about as big around and the inkwell on the inside of a pen, they have no appendages and the only markings we could tell from our not exactly close scrutiny is a little black line (its guts) you can see on the inside that goes about half way up one end.
At my insistence, John pulled the cover off the fan. I thought maybe something had died up there (a rat) and the worms were maggots (even thought they were larger than maggots in my experience.) But John said there had been no smell. Anyway, he got the cover off and there was NOTHING up there. No trace of whatever those worms might have been. Not gross spot where they might have come from. Just your typical dust...
Cassandra (mystery not solved)
. so be glad your worms were in the attic of your house instead of the attic of your body
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