[cleantech]

This is a new one for me...i was at the vacuum stage of cleaning when i moved a small cabinet to find the carpet eaten away by something. I lifted it away from the gripper rod to find ants around the skirting board. Plan was treat with an insecticide once cleared with the costumer. So i thought lets just clean the carpet for now and come back to 1/ the ant problem 2/ whatever was eating the carpet. When i stared to pre-spray maggots started to suface ! lots of them. any ideas? i have since blocked the ant entrance / exit and treated with an insecticide. even as i was spraying the insecticide the maggots continued to appear i would extract them off and they would appear again.....I am thinking carpet moths larvae and the ants were after the maggots? thats my guess any help?

[charles911]

I'm sure many would have walked away at that point.  pure yuk!

[cleantech]

I'm sure many would have walked away at that point.  pure yuk!

I hear you but i would rather go the extra mile to please the costumer than leave them alone with the mess

[garybristow]

Have you tried antsoff or mothoff!!
one of those will work
gary

[cleantech]

Have you tried antsoff or mothoff!!
one of those will work
gary

Hi gary what i used was ficam w a proffesional insecticide

[Neil Williams]

There's a huge difference between carpet moth and maggots.
The moth larvae looks like a grain of rice that through vibration might just raise itself above the carpet fibre (natural fibres only btw), a maggot on the other hand will crawl and will need a dead food source other than carpet to live on.

[danny mosey]

did it look anything like this


this image is magnified x10 the insect in the photo is only about 5mm long and i am told is carpet beetle larvie

[cleantech]

There's a huge difference between carpet moth and maggots.
The moth larvae looks like a grain of rice that through vibration might just raise itself above the carpet fibre (natural fibres only btw), a maggot on the other hand will crawl and will need a dead food source other than carpet to live on.

Ok so lets just say they were maggots which i am almost sure they were...what were they doing within the carpet and what did eat the carpet?

[cleantech]

did it look anything like this


this image is magnified x10 the insect in the photo is only about 5mm long and i am told is carpet beetle larvie

No danny they were white to off white in colour and only appeared when i sprayed the carpet with power burst

[Neil Williams]

Take your choice from this lot

http://www.pestcontrol-uk.org/pests/beetles/carpet-beetles

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=carpet+moth+larvae+pictures&hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLL_en-GBGB334GB334&prmd=imvnsfd&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=3IqMT8_fAfOX0QX2gaG_CQ&ved=0CFUQsAQ&biw=1092&bih=685

[cleantech]

thanks for your input guys

[Jim_77]

search the forums for moth or carpet moth

Loads of topics

Your basic training should have covered pests

[Steven Lawrence]

give this bloke a ring, he knows everything about everything crawling or flying! tell him i gave you his details, 

Peter Higgs
07967 392964
www.pghpestcontrol.co.uk

He will advise you on best thing to do.

[danny mosey]

so did it look more like this

moth larvae

[cleantech]

search the forums for moth or carpet moth

Loads of topics

Your basic training should have covered pests

Should have expected a comment like that from yourself. I am seeing a pattern develop with your posts at this stage.

[cleantech]

so did it look more like this

moth larvae

Yes danny i am happy to say it was moth larvae thanks. I just thought the larvae was brown in colour

[Jim_77]

Should have expected a comment like that from yourself. I am seeing a pattern develop with your posts at this stage.

And what pattern is that?  If people cant be bothered to use the search button I can't be bothered to type out stuff I've posted umpteen times before

I though it seemed you'd already identified what it was, a bit of further reading on your own initiative would have answered a lot of questions

[pete jones]

Is there a dead body under the floorboards  ?

[cleantech]

give this bloke a ring, he knows everything about everything crawling or flying! tell him i gave you his details, 

Peter Higgs
07967 392964
www.pghpestcontrol.co.uk

He will advise you on best thing to do.

Thanks steve

[cleantech]

Should have expected a comment like that from yourself. I am seeing a pattern develop with your posts at this stage.

And what pattern is that?  If people cant be bothered to use the search button I can't be bothered to type out stuff I've posted umpteen times before

I though it seemed you'd already identified what it was, a bit of further reading on your own initiative would have answered a lot of questions

Who said i didn't do a search? Fair comment on having to repeat post but you did end up typing anyway you just decided to be sarcastic instead. I did a search noted all i could and then looked for more info sorry about that.