Over the past 24 hours we've had increasing numbers of what look like very large maggots crawling up out of the drains in our downstairs bathroom. They're translucent white with more solid greyish guts, around 1cm long some almost 2, crawl a bit like inchworms.

Obviously we try pushing them back down the drains, and I've tried spraying the drains with the stuff we use to kill cockroaches, but that doesn't seem to be working and the Thais in the house are truly freaked out as if these things are killers. But they do make the skin crawl I admit.

I'll go out and try to find some rubber plugs that fit the holes tightly enough, but would like other suggestions if anyone's got ideas. And what are they?

Sorry we don't have a camera to post a picture. . .

but would like other suggestions if anyone's got ideas

Have you tried them on toast? Perhaps with a dash of chilli sauce.

sounds like fruit flies larva. if they are climbing out, your bathroom drain is probably slightly clogged somewhere. snake it, some hot water and you had to scrub the 2 inch down the drain hole till it isnt feel slimy

sounds like fruit flies larva. if they are climbing out, your bathroom drain is probably slightly clogged somewhere. snake it, some hot water and you had to scrub the 2 inch down the drain hole till it isnt feel slimy

Actually these are the drain holes cut into the tiled floors, you can look straight down and see the water flowing past about eight inches below, don't seem to be round cross-section pipes, probably just a concreted ditch.

We're just a few doors down from a klong, they probably empty straight into that.

Black soldier fly larvae are usually grey, but I have seen some of the smaller ones a very light grey,

They look more segmented than usual maggots, quite similar to bee larvae.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Black+soldier+fly+larvae&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=dae&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=v9akUPOyGMyYiAeRwYHAAQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1024&bih=607

If this is what you have, simply pick them up and give them to some local chickens, they love them.

Pouring boiling water down the drain, should discourage the most intrusive maggots.

Get a camera and post the picture of the critter. Some unknown species have been identified before on TV this way.

Something must have died there. Those are NOT fruit fly maggots if the are 1 to 2 cm in size.

Bleach. Nothing likes bleach.

No pongy smell of something dying and I can tell you these aren't blowfly nor fruitfly maggots, very few are smaller than 1 cm long, many as thick as a pencil and as I said move like inchworms, pretty fast, not just random wriggling, creepy buggers. Not at all dark like the google pics either.

I'll try bleach, but problem seems to be the very high volume of water running through the drains below the floor.

There are a few chickens down the road at the local temple, maybe I'll ask if I can rent one 8-)

Meantime kids all using the upstairs dunny ATM

Edited November 16, 201213 yr by BigJohnnyBKK

Meantime kids all using the upstairs dunny ATM

You mean the excrement from the downstairs dunny flows straight into the klorng? Maybe that is the source of the problem.......

Just took this pic from my garden. This cocoon was outside for about a week in the same place. When I sprayed water on it, it bounced about like a jumping bean for a few seconds then stopped. It has since hatched most likely a few days ago and that is what is left.

It was a lighter colour when it was moving around and about the size of my thumb. Anyone know what that was?

You mean the excrement from the downstairs dunny flows straight into the klorng? Maybe that is the source of the problem.......

Not sure but would assume they go to separate places.

No as I said these guys are crawling out of the drains cut into the floor tiling, shower and from the corners of the rooms themselves, you know Thai-style where the whole floor gets swamped half a dozen times per day per Thai person living in the house? 8-)

makes me feel sick.

turned me off my beer.

Id pour bleach down the drain.

ask your neighbors if they experience it often.

but i am guessing a rat died down there.

lots of bleech and boiling water.

Edited November 16, 201213 yr by farang000999

One of the girls leaned out and upstairs window and spotted the body of a dead bird on a ledge above the bathroom. Might have to go around the block to the opposite house in back, they've got a window that opens onto the space in between only about 3m away.

fun fun. . .

Mosquito netting over the hole plus bloody great brick?

Black soldier fly larvae are usually grey, but I have seen some of the smaller ones a very light grey,

They look more segmented than usual maggots, quite similar to bee larvae.

https://www.google.c...iw=1024&bih=607

If this is what you have, simply pick them up and give them to some local chickens, they love them.

I get those around the base of my compost bin. Wondered what they were and through your post have now found that rather than being pests they are beneficial.

I get those around the base of my compost bin. Wondered what they were and through your post have now found that rather than being pests they are beneficial.

On our Aussie homestead we used to use "chicken tractors" before planting, movable coops, toss in the scraps and they do great scratching it up, getting rid of the weeds and pests prepping the soil and rich compost directly applied.

Stop pouring cooking oil and rice leftovers down the drain!

On a positive note my wife tells me thoy used to fight for the maggots on the plate of shared food when she was a girl.

By eck thought we had it rough up north sleeping ten to a bed in a matchbox with bacon imprint sandwiches for breakfast.

Well this morning the bird was gone, just a smear on the ledge waiting for the next rain.

Will have to find out who in the house was brave enough to take care of it, later today I hope to have a hundred to spare for a tip.

Bleach seems to have helped with the wormies too. . .