posting for traffic but what is this

[zobey]

Found at my in laws house near the sink in the kitchen.

You didn't bin the cherry pie and the chocolate cake, two pears, a pickle, a lollipop, Swiss cheese, one apple and the salami ... did you?

caterpillar, maggots aren't green

Thorn, she must have kept the ice cream cone though!

Seriously op, have you never seen a caterpillar?

It's a caterpillar, it probably crawled in from outside! Why on earth are you binning everything and scrubbing the kitchen? Over a caterpillar?? They aren't maggots!

My god....

It's a caterpillar, completely different to a maggot, zero need to throw anything, or scrub.

How lacking was your education?!

I am truly astonished that someone has to ask what a caterpillar is. Sorry I'm not having a go or trying to be mean, but really?

You've binned everything and are going to scrub the kitchen?! Because of a caterpillar??

I really worry about how frightened and clueless we as a society we have become.
A caterpillar in your kitchen is not a threat of any kind.

You are throwing things out and scrubbing from top to bottom because of a caterpillar?
Ok then - have a fun day!

hope you didnt kill the caterpillar in your crazed cleaning frenzy??

Calm down, it's only a caterpillar. No need to disinfect the whole house/move/blow it up.

As everyone else has said it is just a caterpillar.
It has probably come in on some washing, or has fallen off some vegetables when they were being washed.

I find it really worrying that anyone would not recognise this.
It looks nothing like a maggot.

Honestly - don't start fumigating the place. Do you never go outside? To the park or in the garden? There are millions of worms, ants, flies, caterpillars and bugs around us all the time. Mostly they don't do us any harm.

thornrose

What have you binned and bought new?
Will the in laws be pleased that whatever it was, was binned over a sighting of a caterpillar?
Is your name Rapunzel?

Blowing up the house would create a lot of rubble which typically gets covered in weeds fairly quickly which in turn is a perfect caterpillar/butterfly habitat .
I think blowing up is preferable to scrubbing tbh...

You have binned food because of a caterpillar? Have you been living under a rock all your life? Caterpillars like fruit and veg. They eat leaves. They are often found in lettuce or broccoli etc. The like it. Finding them is usually a good sign because it suggests that your food has not been bombed with chemicals to within an inch of its like.

Op come back and talk to us!

OP, you are weird.

I don't get this thread is it some odd joke

I wonder if I can find a caterpillar (or even a maggot) to place in my kitchen in the hope of getting it scrubbed from top to bottom by a hysterical concerned relative...

seriously not coming back to explain then, no?!...

Honestly? You have never seen a caterpillar? Or a magot in that case.

Please come back. I need to know what you have binned.
Have you boiled everything in Milton and scrubbed the kids with bleach?

I've binned the dish cloth, tea towel and my daughters things that were round there. And bought new. I scrubbed the work tops and sink to ensure there were no eggs left as the fil is under going treatment for cancer so has a weak immune system.

:o

Sorry. Not laughing at fil's immune system. Was a cross post. The caterpillar won't have harmed anyone. Promise.

Eggs? Do you even know what a caterpillar is OP?