Bug Invasion

[H2oDunc]

Greetings all. I got up this morning to find lots of these little bugs all over the house. Not very quick but crawling about. Just wondered if anybody can identify the little monsters and what laid them etc. They are not massive but around 2.5 - 3 cm long. Cheers in advance

[H2oDunc]

Cheers Transam, the house has marble floors so I cannot believe they are coming from under the house. Also the house is a multi storey house as well. There was more this morning also.

Maybe the mods could move it to the Samui forum as that is where the house is. Maybe somebody there has the same thing ? Cheers

[Lite Beer]

Moved to Samui.

[limbos]

Possibly the buggers that are killing the coconut trees, is one of the floors near a coconut tree or do you have a wooden ceiling, can it be maggots from something that's rotting at your ceiling and the maggots fall through the cracks?

[H2oDunc]

Limbos the cielings are fine, not wooden and they are more woodlice in form and not at all like a maggot. As said the floors are marble so at a loss as to where they are coming from. Its a funny old place

[julesandmartin]

Looks like a 'Black Soldier Fly Pupa'......... completely harmless (see here: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/02/16/black-soldier-fly-pupa/)

Quoted from website above:

This looks like the pupa of a Black Soldier Fly or Window Fly, Hermetia illucens. We get numerous reports of countless Black Soldier Fly larvae in compost piles. If there is a nearby compost pile, the larvae may be migrating to your apartment. The Black Soldier Flies are neither dangerous nor pests, and according to BugGuide: “larvae compete with house flies in manure, compost piles, etc., and may thus be beneficial. Adults are harmless and not known to carry any human disease.” The Black Soldier Fly Blog has some good photos, and there is an entertaining

of an adult emerging from the pupa.

[H2oDunc]

Cheers for that, thats the ones. I was worried they might be an infestation of some sort. It must be a big fly to lay something so big. Thanks again

[H2oDunc]

Problem solved. Instead of getting rid of them before the Missus gets up and starts to clean I left them there for her to sort. 20 minutes later and she found the source. There was around 30 of the little blighter's under the gas bottle in the kitchen. You can't hide anything from the missus and her mop when she is on a mission