We wrapped up a new house last fall and got an e-mail last night that they have inch worms crawling “out of the ceiling in the corner of the kitchen.” I went over there tonight and there are little white inch worms maybe a sixteenth of an inch thick and a half an inch long and white crawling in one corner of the kitchen ceiling. No sign of moisture or past moisture damage, just a little colony of bugs and some staining from where the lady has been spraying raid on her ceiling.
I’m assuming some bug got up there and laid some eggs last fall before we hung the drywall and they are just now hatching and making their way out but there are no signs of exit holes in the sheet rock. and it’s only in one small area of the kitchen.
Any ideas?
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Ummmm... might those be maggots from something dead up above?
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My wife, an entomologist, has two comments- 1st, she says she can't identify anything from a one line description, but if you collected a few specimens in a jar, maybe someone could identify them- ag extension center or something. 2nd, she wondered if they're really crawling through the ceiling, or if a moth just laid some eggs in a corner of the room.
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Inchworms are actually more like a caterpillar in appearance, light green and slightly more than an inch long, in my experience.
What you describe sounds more like maggots to me.
But you need to get them identified before you know what the solution is
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Perhaps they are grain moth larvae? Seems to fit most of your description -- whitish worms on the ceiling, in the kitchen, etc.
http://www.e-bug.net/pests/indianmeal_moths.shtml