posting for traffic but what is this

[zobey]

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

Got to tell you all this story and apologies for hijacking this thread. I bought up a hessian sack from the garage to put rubbish in from cleaning my bedroom. I had a break to eat dinner and when I went back in my room it was FULL of big, fat, black bluebottles!!! My dad had thrown away some old maggots. It was like a horror film...hundreds of them. And after opening window and shooing them all out, I don't remember cleaning much...I was only 12...but I don't remember getting ill either and am still here. OP, as every one has said, this little green thing won't hurt you and I hope you didn't kill it.

My DB, a scientist was visiting the Ukraine and staying with a poor local family...He felt they had gone the extra mile food wise for their visitor. He found a caterpillar in his salad and just ate it as he didn't want to offend them. He is still here too! (it was dead apparently or he would have quietly let it go) And he was working in Chernobyl so it was a radio active caterpillar and he still ate it!

Sadly I can well believe this is not a reverse. some people are so desperately lacking in "common knowledge" thesedays. especially about the natural world. I remember a thread where some people were virtually hysterical about the fact that people actually pick and eat blackberries etc found in the wild

Lol - I was thinking it was a reverse from the caterpillar's POV.

Dingy Skipper Larva

WTF?

Loads of people say it's a caterpillar and the OP then panics about eggs?

OP, I appreciate you're scared about your FIL, but have you ever heard more haste less speed? Panicking and doing something about everything you see is just going to leave you exhausted and burnt-out. Put some time into risk assessment. That was a caterpillar. It probably came in through the window, that's all.

Caterpillars are juvenile butterflies and moths. They don't lay eggs, because they can't.

Silver

have you boiled everything in Milton and scrubbed the kids in bleach < crying laughing at said poster and I'm as OCD as you get! . OP I'm sure all will be fine it is only a caterpillar. I've had maggots (outside bin and the little fuckers looked nothing like that pic). Sorry to read about your FIL. .

What about if a moth came in, or a butterfly (which you do know caterpillars turn into) or a ladybird? Would you do the same thing? Because there's no difference.

That's 100% not a maggot, but even if it was I don't think I would be binning stuff due to one solitary maggot. Might stretch to a wipe round I suppose......
Hope you released him in the garden so he can become a beautiful butterfly

A few years ago I had a 25 year old house mate who was freaking out about the maggots in the (outside) compost bin. Turned out to be worms that I assume were introduced on purpose to help with the composting. I really don't understand how you can get to 25 and not know the difference between a worm and a maggot.

Everyone knows that binning and bleaching everything is the correct procedure for finding a fruit fly in the kitchen. In a caterpillar in the kitchen situation one must burn the entire house down. (source; Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management)

When my DS was starting with finger food I found half of one of those caterpillars in the brocolli he had been eating!

Erm...

I am actually terrified of caterpillars when DSis and I were younger, we went to a pond with my dad who was fishing for daphnia to feed the fish and it was in the middle of really long grass. My DSis kept handing me these caterpillars "look dozy here's another one!" When I finally realised she's been doing it for some while I was covered from arm to arm in these wiggling green little buggers.
If there was a caterpillar in my house, I would be screaming (but probably wouldn't have binned loads of stuff once it had been removed)

In case you haven't guessed, OP, it's a caterpillar, it's completely harmless (under normal conditions), it can't lay eggs, it doesn't eat muck.

Have you REALLY never seen a caterpillar before?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Most amusing thread of the day.

Dick's Maggot is lovely...

RussianBlu Harsh. Think of the poor caterpillar, presumably whisked away in a frenzy of dishcloths and bleach. Not funny for him, is it?

Ahh, I really like caterpillars. They are fuzzy and cute, even if they eat my cabbages.

Maybe one day the caterpillar will get its revenge and come back as a moth and eat the ops lovely woollen rug but she wont realise until its been chomping its way through for weeks or maybe months as a tiny little white maggot and hatched into a moth. She will only notice its shiny gold wings as it flies out of the kitchen window laughing to itself.