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Tevion28 · 20/01/2022 14:16

They keep popping up all over my ceiling despite me picking them off.

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steppemum · 20/01/2022 16:56

we had serious moth problems for a while.
They really do look like the moths that we would get.

It took a long time to find what they had been eating (carpet under the stairs and under the piano)

Santahasjoinedww · 20/01/2022 16:56

If you prod one and they are ready to hatch they fall down in a string like this...

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Flocon · 20/01/2022 16:56

@Santahasjoinedww

If you prod one and they are ready to hatch they fall down in a string like this...
Oh that's horrible
girafferafferaffe · 20/01/2022 16:57

@Santahasjoinedww

If you prod one and they are ready to hatch they fall down in a string like this...
Blaaaahhhhhhh that's sooooo grim
sorryiasked · 20/01/2022 16:58

Check asking your skirting boards, there will probably be loads of the little sh!ts things.
Move any heavy furniture - sofa / desk / sideboard and you'll probably find some threadbare patches in the carpet. This is where the larva have eaten it Sad

PeanuttyButter · 20/01/2022 17:02

My vote is carpet beetles. Used to have them in a house I grew up in

godmum56 · 20/01/2022 17:16

Not to scare you but a mate of mine had to get rid of every organic fibre in her house because of this. Luckily the insurance coughed up but it was a nightmare.

etaussi · 20/01/2022 17:25

Could be carpet beetles, could be moths

Neither especially difficult to deal with, if you don't mind fumigation/pesticides

If you haven't noticed moths flying about them it's unlikely them and I think we're at the end of their season at the moment. Pull up a corner of the carpet and have a look under there

Witsend101 · 20/01/2022 17:29

Carpet moths? If you have wool carpets might be worth a quick check under any furniture for any bare patches

Lilymossflower · 20/01/2022 17:34

Looks like moths larva to me. Are they like little tubes?

I used to get them on the ceiling and when I moved house made sure to use bug sprays, wash clothes regularly , and got rid of old furniture. I hate moths they eat fabric

Lilymossflower · 20/01/2022 17:36

Ew just saw the last picture. They have legs ?! Deffo not moths in that case, must be some other nasty thing. Get all the pesticides and put them everywhere

Tevion28 · 20/01/2022 17:42

They have a bit of a furry look I'm going to pick one off and and put it on some tissue and see if it moves

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VelvetChairGirl · 20/01/2022 18:12

the second picture looks like a carpet beetle they do move did you not notice them moving, its hard to tell they could be roach egg sacks, cant tell the size.

certainly not spiders, I have lots of spiders in my home they are good luck and eat all the nasties, spiders cover their eggs in silk like a fuzzy little ball and they stay with them, well at least my spiders do, I think most of mine are some kind of false widow they look of that type but they are bigger then the ones everyone went ape shit about a few years ago.

HedgerowRobin · 20/01/2022 18:19

They are definitely case making clothes moths - they are the ‘cases’ they make out of your chewed up clothes! Often those cases will be empty but sometimes there are little legs sticking out of the inside tube if you look closely. I’ve not got any advice on how to get rid of them though - we have a few upstairs in our loft bedroom but they don’t seem to do much harm.

KurtWilde · 20/01/2022 18:25

Agree with moths, we've had them a few times like little tubes where the wall meets the ceiling.

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